Worst assembly job ever...

[Guy G. Giacopuzzi]

When I worked at the LA store in the mid seventies, I remember my boss 
"buying back" a hopeless kit when a customer refused to follow the 
soldering instructions...

Guy


Herman N4Ch wrote:
> This Heathkit wattmeter assembly job reminds me of one I had  to deal with 
> some 40 years ago.   A customer brought a freshly-built  Heathkit AR-15 into 
> a shop where I was working.   The AR-15 was a  really nice solid-state 
> top-of-the-line AM/FM stereo receiver that retailed for  around $350 back in the 
> mid-late 1960s.   It had virtually every  feature imaginable at the time.   
> The "builder" had  apparently spent every dime he had available to buy one 
> of these kits, but had  not left enough money to buy a soldering 
> iron..........and he proceeded to put  the whole kit together using LePage's Liquid 
> Solder (nothing more than  metallic-grey colored airplane glue).   Every solder 
> joint on every  circuit board and terminal strip was done using this 
> plastic cement.    Of course every connection was not much of a connection at all, 
> and it took us  quite a bit of convincing to let the guy know that he'd be 
> a lot better off  buying a new kit, and starting over........with a real 
> soldering  iron.   73, Herman, N4CH.
>
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