BDK wrote:
In article ,
says...
Telamon wrote:
In article ,
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).

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

In article ,
says...
BDK wrote:
In article ,
says...
Telamon wrote:
In article ,
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.


--

BDK..
Leader of the nonexistent paid shills.
Non Jew Jew Club founding member.
Former number one Kook Magnet, passed to Iarnrod.

BDK wrote:
In article ,
says...
BDK wrote:
In article ,
says...
Telamon wrote:
In article ,
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.



http://www.mageyes.com/Hobby.htm

(These things rule.)

In article 4a28046b.1206843@chupacabra,
says...
BDK wrote:
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've accumulated various power 'coke bottles' from thrift stores and
some are quite thick, can only use them from about six to eight inches
away, and it's a real whiff of nostalgia to once again be able to see
all the stuff that I could in my youth without visual aids.
I think the first SMD thing I built involved an MMIC and was one of the
last freq counter kits Optoelectronics sold back in 1990. This was about
the time the guy was splitting up with his business partner (wife) to
become Startek and when I asked why the kits were being discontinued was
told there were too many problems with people not being able to see
enough to build them. Mine went together fairly easily and worked on
first power up with the residual charge on the NiCad pack.



I had one of those for a while, not a kit though. I traded a bunch of
CDs to a friend of mine for it. It wasn't much use for anything, and I
traded it in at Universal for something.
--

BDK..
Leader of the nonexistent paid shills.
Non Jew Jew Club founding member.
Former number one Kook Magnet, passed to Iarnrod.

In article ,
says...
BDK wrote:
In article ,
says...
BDK wrote:
In article ,
says...
Telamon wrote:
In article ,
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.



http://www.mageyes.com/Hobby.htm

(These things rule.)


Thanks! I'm gonna give them a try!
--

BDK..
Leader of the nonexistent paid shills.
Non Jew Jew Club founding member.
Former number one Kook Magnet, passed to Iarnrod.

In article telamon_spamshield-A4CAA5.19420804062009
@newsclstr03.news.prodigy.net,
lid says...
In article ,
BDK wrote:

In article telamon_spamshield-88DEF4.18554603062009
@newsclstr02.news.prodigy.com,
lid says...
In article ,
BDK wrote:

In article telamon_spamshield-D54045.20082402062009
@newsclstr03.news.prodigy.net,
lid says...
In article 4a28c296.1649562@chupacabra,
Bob Dobbs wrote:

BDK wrote:

You kooktards and your 911 nonsense, your evil joo stuff, and of
course,
your Obama BC insanity, keep me laughing while I work on some stuff.
I'm
currently putting together some scanner pre amps, and taking a laugh
break makes the job less monotonous.

An intellectually challenged git like teletubbie* can provide a
respite
from more serious aspects of real life and allow decompression.

You are the authority on being intellectually challenged.

And you're the self-taught authority on being miserable.

I'm not miserable.



Then you're an excellent actor. Did you study with Lee Strasburg?

No. This is just you projecting your misery upon others.



But I'm not miserable in the slightest, Telemundoh. You on the other
hand...
--

BDK..
Leader of the nonexistent paid shills.
Non Jew Jew Club founding member.
Former number one Kook Magnet, passed to Iarnrod.

In article telamon_spamshield-3E77EF.19432504062009
@newsclstr03.news.prodigy.net,
lid says...
In article ,
BDK wrote:

In article telamon_spamshield-09AD3C.19004003062009
@newsclstr02.news.prodigy.com,
lid says...
In article ,
BDK wrote:

In article telamon_spamshield-A977AC.20112602062009
@newsclstr03.news.prodigy.net,
lid says...
In article ,
BDK wrote:

In article 4a28c296.1649562@chupacabra,
says...
BDK wrote:

You kooktards and your 911 nonsense, your evil joo stuff, and of
course,
your Obama BC insanity, keep me laughing while I work on some
stuff.
I'm
currently putting together some scanner pre amps, and taking a
laugh
break makes the job less monotonous.

An intellectually challenged git like teletubbie* can provide a
respite
from more serious aspects of real life and allow decompression.

* http://tinyurl.com/4rv6ae



LOL, I never made the connection! Which one is he?

That's normal , you don't get much.

Sorry, I don't pay much attention to kiddee shows, and Obama BC
kooktardery.

"Kooktardery" is 99% of what I see you post about.


I didn't know there's an ultra right wing one either. What's it's
name,
and what does it do and carry?

Good luck trying to bring me down to your intellectual level.

LOL, that's a good one.

Yes it is good and true.

You're the one with the delta loop on it's head.

Not very original, that was my joke I posted in response to cuhulin the
day before.



Well, golly gee.

I probably didn't read it, I don't read all your posts, his either.

I guess you'll be suing me for royalties, right?

I think you did and conveniently forgot about it.



Nah, I don't rip off jokes, especially yours. Actually, I don't really
remember a joke of yours, but I guess there must be one. All I remember
is bitterness.

--

BDK..
Leader of the nonexistent paid shills.
Non Jew Jew Club founding member.
Former number one Kook Magnet, passed to Iarnrod.

In article 4a28b659.9575625@chupacabra,
says...
BDK wrote:
In article 4a28046b.1206843@chupacabra,
says...
BDK wrote:
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've accumulated various power 'coke bottles' from thrift stores and
some are quite thick, can only use them from about six to eight inches
away, and it's a real whiff of nostalgia to once again be able to see
all the stuff that I could in my youth without visual aids.
I think the first SMD thing I built involved an MMIC and was one of the
last freq counter kits Optoelectronics sold back in 1990. This was about
the time the guy was splitting up with his business partner (wife) to
become Startek and when I asked why the kits were being discontinued was
told there were too many problems with people not being able to see
enough to build them. Mine went together fairly easily and worked on
first power up with the residual charge on the NiCad pack.



I had one of those for a while, not a kit though. I traded a bunch of
CDs to a friend of mine for it. It wasn't much use for anything, and I
traded it in at Universal for something.

I got a more useful ATH (Auto Trigger and Hold) Startek that allowed the
freq to be 'captured' after I traded mine for something or other at a
swap meet.



Yeah, that would be an improvement. I have a much greater need for a
bench type freq counter to align radios with. I got one super cheap, and
it's amazingly accurate for $88 bucks, proven by WWV. Much better than
the one I used to have that you had to let warm up for an hour to get it
even close to stable, and about 4 if I wanted it to be dead on. The new
one is ready to go in like 20 minutes.
--

BDK..
Leader of the nonexistent paid shills.
Non Jew Jew Club founding member.
Former number one Kook Magnet, passed to Iarnrod.

In article telamon_spamshield-249E06.23090705062009
@newsclstr03.news.prodigy.net,
lid says...
In article ,
BDK wrote:

In article telamon_spamshield-A4CAA5.19420804062009
@newsclstr03.news.prodigy.net,
lid says...
In article ,
BDK wrote:

In article telamon_spamshield-88DEF4.18554603062009
@newsclstr02.news.prodigy.com,
lid says...
In article ,
BDK wrote:

In article telamon_spamshield-D54045.20082402062009
@newsclstr03.news.prodigy.net,
lid says...
In article 4a28c296.1649562@chupacabra,
Bob Dobbs wrote:

BDK wrote:

You kooktards and your 911 nonsense, your evil joo stuff, and of
course,
your Obama BC insanity, keep me laughing while I work on some
stuff.
I'm
currently putting together some scanner pre amps, and taking a
laugh
break makes the job less monotonous.

An intellectually challenged git like teletubbie* can provide a
respite
from more serious aspects of real life and allow decompression.

You are the authority on being intellectually challenged.

And you're the self-taught authority on being miserable.

I'm not miserable.



Then you're an excellent actor. Did you study with Lee Strasburg?

No. This is just you projecting your misery upon others.



But I'm not miserable in the slightest, Telemundoh. You on the other
hand...

You already admitted you were miserable so are you going schizophrenic
on us now?



Apparently the Obama BC virus has affected your reading comprehension to
the point you're totally confused. It would explain a lot though.

--

BDK..
Leader of the nonexistent paid shills.
Non Jew Jew Club founding member.
Former number one Kook Magnet, passed to Iarnrod.

In article telamon_spamshield-C2B1BE.23100705062009
@newsclstr03.news.prodigy.net,
lid says...
In article ,
BDK wrote:

In article telamon_spamshield-3E77EF.19432504062009
@newsclstr03.news.prodigy.net,
lid says...
In article ,
BDK wrote:

In article telamon_spamshield-09AD3C.19004003062009
@newsclstr02.news.prodigy.com,
lid says...
In article ,
BDK wrote:

In article telamon_spamshield-A977AC.20112602062009
@newsclstr03.news.prodigy.net,
lid says...
In article ,
BDK wrote:

In article 4a28c296.1649562@chupacabra,

says...
BDK wrote:

You kooktards and your 911 nonsense, your evil joo stuff, and
of
course,
your Obama BC insanity, keep me laughing while I work on some
stuff.
I'm
currently putting together some scanner pre amps, and taking a
laugh
break makes the job less monotonous.

An intellectually challenged git like teletubbie* can provide a
respite
from more serious aspects of real life and allow decompression.

* http://tinyurl.com/4rv6ae



LOL, I never made the connection! Which one is he?

That's normal , you don't get much.

Sorry, I don't pay much attention to kiddee shows, and Obama BC
kooktardery.

"Kooktardery" is 99% of what I see you post about.


I didn't know there's an ultra right wing one either. What's it's
name,
and what does it do and carry?

Good luck trying to bring me down to your intellectual level.

LOL, that's a good one.

Yes it is good and true.

You're the one with the delta loop on it's head.

Not very original, that was my joke I posted in response to cuhulin the
day before.



Well, golly gee.

I probably didn't read it, I don't read all your posts, his either.

I guess you'll be suing me for royalties, right?

I think you did and conveniently forgot about it.



Nah, I don't rip off jokes, especially yours. Actually, I don't really
remember a joke of yours, but I guess there must be one. All I remember
is bitterness.

Looks like you have a bad case of selective memory going there.



The more reasonable, and true explanation is I just didn't see it. I
don't read every one of your posts, Telemundoh. I'm sure that crushes
you.
--

BDK..
Leader of the nonexistent paid shills.
Non Jew Jew Club founding member.
Former number one Kook Magnet, passed to Iarnrod.