[Elecraft] Please help me with my T1

[Dale Putnam]

Don has described the problem quite well, I've found that manufacture error can cause the missing rosin, however, 
I've found much more often for my bench, that when I wasn't careful with the closing of the end of the solder, that the rosin 
would not be there when I needed it the next time.. especially if I left it lay for a while. (used a different size for a project, then came back to the first roll later) The seemed to happen especially when I pulled the solder apart, in a hurry to grab a piece and go do.
That is a bad thing, from the view of the remaining solder, stretched, the end is left open... and the rosin... "walks away". 
The better way, of course, is to use cutters to cut the solder, or melt it, thus sealing the end from rosin loss. 
  The manufacture process, may not be quite as exacting as it used to be either... because the automated process of board production doesn't rely on "noisy folks" if the solder isn't there when needed.
 Have a great day, 

--... ...-- Dale - WC7S in Wy


 
> Relays K9 through K15 are the ones that have the SMD in the middle and I am
> thinking that this may have something to do with my problem because they are
> the only ones doing this. I place the relay and flip it over to solder. I
> place the soldering iron tip on one side of the pin and touching the pad
> too, then touch the other side of the pin and pad with the solder and I get
> a small puff of smoke and the solder is melted but as I take away the
> soldering iron tip, the solder comes too. The solder seems to want to stay
> with the tip but not on the pad or the pin on the relay. What is wrong?
> I have tries different temps and I have tried scratching-up the pins and
> pads just in case there is some sort of coating preventing the solder from
> attaching its self. That did not work. I am using Kester 60/40 .03 dia.
> solder