[GreenKeys] Radio Shack

[Mike via GreenKeys]

Jim,
There was an article in QST a while back ( I can check the "archives" and get the issue # if you like) that described a method of using a toaster oven as a way to solder SMD's for the average hobbiest. It seemed to be a pretty straight forward procedure and required only the addition of a temp sensor (thermistor?) to allow you to manually control the process by turning off the oven and allowing the temperature to "coast" while the solder paste flows. Definitely not for mass production, but it could put some of the zip back into reading those catalogs.

Mike O'Day
N9ODM


> On Sep 13, 2014, at 11:35, Jim Haynes <jhhaynes at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 12 Sep 2014, John Nagle wrote:
>> 
>>  For a lot of hobbyists, though, Digi-Key isn't friendly
>> enough.   For a 100 ohm, low-wattage, through hole resistor
>> they offer over 50 products. Radio Shack would have one.
>> It would be worse quality than the cheapest offering
>> on Digi-Key, but still, Digi-Key is scary if you're
>> not an EE or electronics technician.
> Yeah.  And when I was a youngster it was fun to just read the Allied
> catalog: all that variety of stuff!  But today a printed catalog is
> much thicker, but filled with a lot of surface mount and other kinds
> of parts that the average hobbyist can't imagine using.  So reading
> it is pretty boring.
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