[time-nuts] Vaperware Parts and pulse stretching circuits

[Dana Whitlow]

When soldering parts with tight pin spacings, don't forget the trick of
clearing shorts
between adjacent pins using copper braid freshly wet with liquid flux.  The
message
here is: don't panic if you create a short or even a group of shorts while
soldering.
It happens all the time and is pretty easy to recover from.

Dana


On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 5:27 AM Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net> wrote:

>
> john at scawbydesign.co.uk said:
> > Just to put the record straight, I am a 72-year-old retired electronics
> > specialist who uses a 50-year-old Weller soldering iron and a magnified
> > (x3.5) bench light to solder 64pin 0.5mm pitch MSP430 microprocessors by
> > hand. As I said - "... not impossible to solder."
>
> How long does it take?
>
> I've seen a writeup that says roughly, lots of flux, get a blob of solder
> on
> the tip of the iron and sweep it across a row of pins.  If all goes well,
> it
> just works.  I haven't tried it.
>
> ---------
>
> It was many years ago when I noticed that my eyes getting older had
> crossed
> over the pins getting smaller.
>
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