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BDK[_6_] · June 4th 09, 06:24 PM posted to rec.radio.shortwave

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BDK wrote:

Sure thing Kookaburra. You are such a prolific Usenet Kook I doubt you
have time for anything else.

LOL, I guess I'm not as feeble minded as you are. I solder a few joints,
post, solder a few more, watch TV, etc. Not all that hard to, for me at
least. I've been putting stuff together a long long time now, and can
plug in parts and solder with the best of them.
You smoke a few joints and then watch TV and make 1,813 garbage posts in
May. Tough life you got going there.

Sounds like pretty advanced stuff, if it still has leads and doesn't
need an oven.

You don't need an oven to do most SMD stuff, just steady hands and a
tiny iron. A vacuum desoldering station makes it easy to pull parts.
The preamps I did were a mix of parts, a little SM pc board and a
bandpass filter made the old fashioned way. Even wound a couple of
coils.

As my hands get steadier my vision gets worse. I use Mageyes and a
pointy Hakko type soldering station for discrete SMT component changing
(4 "lead" FETs usually).

I'm at the point where I have to take off my glasses and get really
close. Reading glasses help a little, sometimes, but I always end up
taking them off and just getting really close. I can't remember the
brand of the tiny soldering irons I bought at a local electronics store
that was closing for an insane price a few years ago. There were all
kinds of tips that came with it, and the owner of the store tossed in
the remaining ones he had, as I had spent a lot of money there over the
years. Came in very useful for swapping out a ton of caps on the Kenwood
TS-850 I got super cheap a while back. Very nice receiver.

If I was building a new board from scratch I'd use paste and hot air
of some kind.

Well, so far, I haven't done any scratch stuff involving SM. Most of the
time, the board is bought from some place, like FAR, and I put it
together, sometimes mod it too. I have a couple of friends who have
vision issues and so I am the one who gets to do all their soldering and
PC assembly. I get paid sometimes, sometimes it's trade for something,
but it's usually fun.

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BDK..
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