3 Dec
2008
3 Dec
'08
2:43 p.m.
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 8:19 AM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
I use adapters for things such as uCs and CPLDs and
can do those
right most of the time, but occasionally, I mess up and have to start
all over again. Thank heavens for my Wood's metal desoldering trick
or I would have made garbagge out of the adapter boards.
I have a "ChipQuik" kit of some flux and a slug of something like
Wood's Metal, presumably the trick you are talking about. I have yet
to use it (it's just a free sample). The documentation seems
straightorward, though.
Does anyone on the list know where to get moderate quantities of
Wood's or Field's Metal at reasonable cost? By moderate, I'm
thinking of a small number of pounds (kgs). I don't have an immediate
use for it, but in the next year or two, I'm considering building a
RepRap or a Fab at Home and one of the things on the horizon is printing
circuits with low-temp metal on top of printed plastic substrates.
I'd like to see how much the metal is going to cost before I go down
that route.
-ethan