26 Aug
2010
26 Aug
'10
12:43 p.m.
On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 cube1 at charter.net wrote:
That's what worries me...
So, as long as that pin is soldered to the pad on
top,
and that is normally a really shitty solder connection. and so long as
that pad runs to ground somewhere else *OR* so long as the thru-hole
plating is intact -- no biggy.
Either way, it is almost certainly fine just the way it is.
10 years OK, then gradually worsening intermittent connection.
Even DURING those first 10 years, I do NOT consider that "fine". The Board Swappers declared the board to be
"NFG" and wanted to discard
it. One of my colleagues is about to get fired - of the fifteen
complaints against him for "unprofessional behavior", one of the most
serious is "took discarded stuff out of the college dumpster and
repaired it".
I thought we were supposoied to be reducing the amount of waste sent ot
landfill.... I susepc the next bit of 'unprofessional behaviour' should
involve a testla coil and some bits of the management :-)
To bring this throughly OFF-topic, should you clean
Ansel Adams'
thumbprint off of one of his negatives?
(which is more important? - the historical aspect, or the quality of it?)
I thinki I would print it as-is to keep a record of the thumbprint (and
to preseve the image as far as I could if cleaning it ruined it), and
then clean off the thumbrint and print it 'properly' :-)
-tony