[Boatanchors] Kit Horror Stories / WRL Screen Modulator

[Barry Hauser]

Phil wrote:

<snipped>  they provided me a tube of that "Liquid Solder" as they
figured "Solder was
> solder".   How was I to know that it was just silver colored airplane
cement??
> 

Well, Phil, and gang, it may sound silly in retrospect (and I seem to
remember doing the same thing, but not on a kit.)  I think we were just
ahead of our time.

A couple of years ago, I tried to repair a radar detector with an
intermittent connection between the display and the board. One connection
tab had lifted.  Tried to fix it with soldering iron and regular
"meltable" solder.  Forget it.  I learned the hard way that a lot of
modern teeny-tiny surface mount stuff is "glued" together with New Age
conductive "liquid solder." At least, I think that's what it is.

Needless to say, I wound up with a boat anchor for a very small boat.  

Also, it helps to have a two million dollar programmable robot arm to
position the parts.

Barry

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