[Milsurplus] Professionally converted radios

[Mike Morrow]

>There is good work, usable work, and shoddy work...

During my years an officer on a nuclear submarine, I was
in charge of the Reactor Controls division.  These were
USN nuclear-trained Electronics Technicians 2/C through
ETCS.  I usually had to keep myself from interfering when
observing the soldering skills of many of my people.  They
were all professionals dealing with some fairly critical
equipment, yet at least half just did not have the touch
when it came to making a proper solder joint.

This was a USN-wide problem, so finally schools were
established to deal with nothing but soldering techniques.
That helped, except for it not emphasizing the need to use
*non-conductive* liquid solder flux on PCBs!

Mike / KK5F