[GreenKeys] Who's still looking at getting John Nagle's USB<->CL Board made ?

[Richard Knoppow]

    I wonder if there is any sort of magnifier that could help 
you with close work. I do not need cataract surgery yet but my 
eyes have become fixed focus at a medium distance. I need reading 
glasses to read but can still work by having the right strength. 
Its a PITA to need three or four different strengths but they do 
work. I get plain drugstore reading glasses, not prescription. 
For distance I need prescription glasses or contacts. In fact, I 
have the same problem as you when wearing contact lenses, fixed 
focus at infinity. Same thing, if I wear the right reading 
glasses I can work close up. The is a discount grocery and dry 
goods chain here called 99c Stores, reading glasses are 99c so I 
get mine there.
     We had a surface mount rig at work before I retired. Used 
hot air to fuse the solder. Not too difficult but takes some 
practice. I think it had a built-in magnifier on a gooseneck.

On 3/5/2018 1:06 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Mar 2018, Pete Lancashire wrote:
> 
>> - Board with SMT Parts + list of non SMT parts
> 
> I can do this (depending on cost and shipping to VK); I can't do 
> SMD because of my cataract surgery (my plastic lenses are fixed 
> at infinity, making close-up vision problematic). but at least I 
> know which end of a soldering iron is the hot bit.
>


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Richard Knoppow
1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com
WB6KBL