[Coco] precision soldering skill

[Retro Canada]

well it's working and it has been this way the last 30 years i'm not
gonna touch it, unless i find some malfunction ;)

On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 1:43 AM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> On Friday 19 October 2012 01:34:23 Retro Canada did opine:
>
>> this is a new 'ride a horse' soldering technique:
>>
>> http://t.co/HQ4pxzK0
>>
>> found inside my coco2 and it was still factory sealed. made in korea.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
> Chuckle. ;-) even.  But, speaking as a C.E.T., which I am one, that is
> about as sloppy a job as I've seen since I retired a decade back.  HOWEVER,
> it looks as if all legs I can see from this side are actually connected,
> I'm not so sure I would warm up the iron and fix it unless I could see,
> with a very strong magnifying glass, any hairline, almost invisible cracks
> in the solder between the leg and the board.  Those would likely lead to
> its only operating at one or the other temperature extreme.
>
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>
> Cheers, Gene
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