Re: hardware texturing broken on Octane HELP

From: Tony 'Nicoya' Mantler (nicoya_at_ubb.ca)
Date: 02/25/04 

Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 19:29:08 GMT

In article <c1il3l$1htcc3$1@ID-124268.news.uni-berlin.de>,
 Andreas Backhaus <rootprompt@despammed.com> wrote:

: 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*

Well, ok, there is a *bit* of technique to it. :) Getting the right temperature,
getting the right amount of solder, knowing how to coax solder to flow in the
right directions, etc. It's something that you have to pick up with practice,
the main skill you need controlling the flow of solder from iron to joint and
from joint to iron.

The point I was trying to make, though, is that you don't need a $100k rework
station and inhuman ninja skills to be able to fix up a few SMT solder joints.

Cheers - Tony 'Nicoya' Mantler :) 

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