Re: hardware texturing broken on Octane HELP

From: Andreas Backhaus (rootprompt_at_despammed.com)
Date: 02/25/04 

Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 18:13:24 +0100

Tony 'Nicoya' Mantler wrote:

> The technique is not "use a very fine tipped soldering iron, microscope, and
> steady hands of a surgeon", it's more like "get the soldering iron nice and hot
> and wipe a small blob of solder across all the pins on one side". If the solder
> is the right temperature it will cling only to the solder pads and IC leads, and
> will not form bridges between the pins. If you do get some bridges, they're easy
> enough to wipe away with the hot iron.

In theory, that works. In real life, not so good :-/
What you get with this method are tons of pins that are soldered
together and it's not that easy to wipe that away. What works well is to
suck away the solder (no, don't use mom's vacuum cleaner).

Or I didn't find the right temperature for the soldering iron ;) - don't
forget, make it too hot and you'll damage more than you'll fix.

Anyway, I'm open to corrections, I've got two more TRAMs here to fix *g*

Cheers
Andreas

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