Some Heath comments

Paul K. Dean wb9hgz at CHARLOTTESVILLE.NET
Sat Mar 14 10:37:50 EST 1998


What a great story!  Liquid solder.....ugh!  It was intended for plumbing.
When I was in grade school, a long time ago, my science teacher made me use
it on a small electronics project as they did not want the liability of
kids using hot soldering irons in class.  The stuff I used was not even
conductive!!  Needless to say, the project did not work.  Took it home,
undid it and re-soldered with the real stuff and it worked fine!

How fortunate the original owner of your kit was that it worked.  Obviously
followed rule #1, have a good mechanical connection prior to soldering.

73, all,
Paul, wb9hgz

At 10:39 PM 3/13/98 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi Heath Fans,
>
>I picked up a really pretty looking DX-40 at a garage sale once.  First
>thing I did was open it up to see how it was put together.  It had been
>assembled using "liquid solder".  What liguid solder was, or i assume
>anyway, was a heavy glue with either silver colering or maybe even metal
>particals in it.  Out of curiosity I fired it up and it worked just fine.
>
>I took it all apart and turned it into a new kit.  Well as close to a new
>kit as I could get anyway.  Put it all back together using real solder.  I
>still have that rig and when I am all done with my new shack I am going to
>unpack it from storage and put it back on the air.  Love that rig and feel
>I built it.
>
>73 Jim K7SLI
>
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