[Elecraft] OT: soldering practice

[R. Kevin Stover]

They'd have to be ancient.

The PC world has been almost totally SMD for 10 years now.
Looking at an now 8 year old Athlon Thunderbird mobo I have in the
closet,the only parts which aren't SMD are the caps around the socket 7
socket for power supply filtering and the voltage regulators.

You might be bale to find some old ISA slot peripherals. Hamfests
are a good place to look as Hams never throw anything away, even when
they should.

Could have had me an old IBM RS-6000 and all the perifs for $250 bucks
last year.


On Sun, 5 Jun 2011 11:17:57 -0400
"VE3GAM Allen McRorie" <ve3gam at rogers.com> wrote:

> what about some old Personal Computer boards, I know one of the guys
> I volunterr with has replaced the caps on some of the boards with
> enlarged caps, perhaps there are other parts you could work on
> 
> other than that, a surplus store if you have one handy
> 
> al ve3gam




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