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![]() "highlandham" wrote in message ... snip What strikes me in this newsgroup thread , time and again, is that MFJ´s quality control people (if they exist) pass badly soldered PCBs and other imperfections which affect their products´ reliability . But for some reason they get away with it. To me this seems to be an attitude brought about by management.........Martin F. Jue ? Frank , GM0CSZ / KN6WH ================================================== ======= I picked up an MFJ "Deluxe Versatuner" at a ham swap meet. I opened it at home to give it some poking and prodding. I quickly discovered that most of the hardware need to be tightened or retightened -- if it was ever tight. This reminds me to open it again. It's been a few years. :-) "Sal" (really KD6VKW) |
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On 1/21/2016 10:32 PM, Sal M. O'Nella wrote:
"highlandham" wrote in message ... snip What strikes me in this newsgroup thread , time and again, is that MFJ´s quality control people (if they exist) pass badly soldered PCBs and other imperfections which affect their products´ reliability . But for some reason they get away with it. To me this seems to be an attitude brought about by management.........Martin F. Jue ? Frank , GM0CSZ / KN6WH ================================================== ======= I picked up an MFJ "Deluxe Versatuner" at a ham swap meet. I opened it at home to give it some poking and prodding. I quickly discovered that most of the hardware need to be tightened or retightened -- if it was ever tight. This reminds me to open it again. It's been a few years. :-) "Sal" (really KD6VKW) It's not just what we first think of as electronics: I have a Chevrolet pickup truck, and the windshield wipers quit working. (Of course it happened during an intense storm while I was far from home.) Online I found that (a) it was a common problem among many models from General Motors (not just Chevy) for quite a few years, and (b) if you went to the dealer they would install a new wiper motor for about $200. I took the motor out and disassembled it. There was a surprisingly complicated PC board governing the several different speeds of operation. And, of course, at least half the soldered connections needed to be redone. It has now worked fine for another decade, but I feel badly about the (hundreds of?) thousands of people who wasted all that money, and all the wasted (probably trashed rather than recycled) motors and gear trains and electronics, etc. Maybe I should be amazed at how well so much of our electronics does work, if it is this hard (read expensive to the manufacturer, not really difficult!) to do mass production PC board soldering right! Bob Wilson |
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