27 Jun
2013
27 Jun
'13
10:49 a.m.
Aye. I greatly enjoyed doing mine. :-) (By that
point I was already
entirely competent to solder...and it was long enough ago it didn't
mean dealing with crappy RoHS `solder'.)
I know what you mean. That is one reason I would alwys buy a kit now
raher than an asembled device (and why I would prefer things to be
avaialbel as kits). I can solder it with lead/tin solder and it's likely
to keep on working.
Jsut this afternoon I was wiring a UK telephone socket. This particualr
one had the socket, a few components and some screw temrmianl blocks
soldered to a PCB. I had some very odd problems which turned out to be
due to the fact that te torge of tightening down the screw-terminals has
ccacked the very brittle lead-free soldered connections between the
terminal blocks and the PCB. I took the thing apart, desoldered it all,
resolederd it with lead/tin and had no mmore problems.
-tony