[Boatanchors] Solder

[Pete Lancashire]

Most of the ESS was punchdown & wire wrap. But inside lots of PCB's He got
involved quite often with modifications with guys from WECO & Labs. A
treasured gift to a 12 y/o (me) was a spool of Kester solder with a sticker
"For xxx's kid brother, happy birthday, the boys from Naperville"

On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 8:24 PM, Jim Haynes <jhhaynes at earthlink.net> wrote:

> On Sun, 10 May 2015, Pete Lancashire wrote:
>
>  I totally love the folk lure on WECO solder. Only if the audio types knew
>> it was salvaged/reclaimed solder by Nassau Smelting and. Refining Company
>> a
>> wholly owned division of WE.
>>
>
> I assumed they knew.  The spools I remember seeing around the telephone
> office had the Nassau name on them.
>
>
>> My brother worked for Bell Penna and any work on the ESS switches no
>> Nassau
>> solder was to be found, it was all "new", the usual brands.
>>
>>  Wonder why.  Maybe there was just not much solder coming out of Nassau
> with the end of lead-sheathed cables, and with ESS using punchdown
> rather than soldered distributing frame connections.  Wasn't the ESS
> backplane wire wrapped?  So what did they need to solder?
>
> ______________________________________________________________
> Boatanchors mailing list
> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/boatanchors
> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
> Post: mailto:Boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
> Message delivered to xyzzypdx at gmail.com
>
> List Administrator: Duane Fischer, W8DBF
> ** For Assistance: dfischer at usol.com **
>
>
> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
>