11 Mar
2010
11 Mar
'10
11:50 a.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
Absolutely. Strippd, it's good for soldering along broken tracks (yes, I
know the really relaible way is to solder to the nearest component lead
on the track, but for a lot of things, scraping off the solder mask and
soldering a wire along the track is good enough. A blob of solder over
the crack most certainly isn't!).
It's waht I use for cut-n-jumpr modifications to PCBs too;
[...]
It's normally 30AWG, I think. I find it's
useful for making links on=20
stripboard too, it's thin enough to run round the IC sockets neatly, yo=
u=20
can put 2 wires in one hole (or a wire and an IC
socket pin in one hole=
)=20
if you're short of space, and it solders
well.
... and it's good for "green-wire" fixes on PCBs. Especially when some=20
It's a
pity Maplin no longer sell it. It was useful just being able to=20
pop into the shop and buy a couple of reels.
Maplin stopped carrying useful items years ago... They're the Tandys of=20 the 21st century. I remember when you could go in
there and buy=20
electronics kits (I've got the UA3730 Electronic Lock kit and the=20
Unfortunately that darn EMC directive killed off the Maplin kits (they
would have had to be checked for compliance when assembled according to
the instructions). Maplin still sell a few Vellemann kits, and another
brand that I can't rememebr.
I can remember, perhaps 20 years ago, going to the Maplin shop in Bristol
and comping home with a couple of bags of ICs, conenctors, cable, etc for
whatever I was building at the time. Alas not any more :-(
-tony