[Heathkit:Yahoo] Worst assembly job ever...

[Bob Burns]

In a message dated 18/08/2009 05:51:59 GMT Standard Time,  
ng19delta at yahoo.com writes:

So I  opened the unit- Wow. What a bad job! Almost all the solder joints 
are poor- I  mean Real Bad! The antenna connections, which had once been 
connected, were  disconnected for some reason. 


Hi Scott
 
Many years ago as a teenager I worked in a local radio shop on Saturdays. A 
 customer brought in a non-working crystal set he had assembled for his son 
using  plastic lead (a solvent based adhesive of the time) to make the 
connections. We  managed to remove the plastic glue and remake all of the joints 
with proper  solder but I suspect that the rework cost was not cheap 
compared to the  component costs.
 
73

Bob 

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