[R-390] Soldering School (was: Another newbie question...)

[Bill Breeden]

I attended the two week "High Reliability Soldering & Connections" course at 
Keesler AFB in August of 1974.  That class has been as useful to me over the 
last 39 years as anything I learned in the Air Force.  The lead Instructor 
told our class that the soldering techniques taught in the class reduced the 
weight of the solder in an ICBM by 40 pounds.  40 pounds of extra payload 
capacity in an ICBM was considered priceless at that time.

73,

Bill - NA5DX


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-390-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:r-390-bounces at mailman.qth.net] 
> On Behalf Of Sheldon Daitch
> Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2013 5:46 AM
> To: Bob Camp; John Saxon
> Cc: R-390 at mailman.qth.net Group
> Subject: Re: [R-390] Another newbie question...
>
> Far to many years ago, when I had a job with the  USAF at Robins AFB, I 
> went to a 40 hour school on NASA soldering techniques.
>
> I seem to recall if you could not see the weave of the strands of the 
> stranded wire on a terminal, there was too much solder.
>
> Sheldon
>
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> At Ground Radio school at Keesler AFB we spent 2 days on nothing but 
> soldering. At the time, they said the NASA certification class was 2 
> weeks.
>
> My dad  worked for IBM from the mid 50's thru the mid 70's on the defense 
> department guidance system stuff as well as a little bit on the Apollo 
> project. I guess one of the things he did was designing wiring harnesses, 
> and weight was definitely a major factor in the design!
>
> Bill W2NVD