Assembling Transistor Radios 1955

[xrunner]

[Radio Tech]

Pretty cool. Love the old stuff

[dexters_lab]

lol, love the soldering techniques!

[free_electron]

OMG ! no fume extraction , no safety glasses, no splashguard or thermal insulating gloves on the solder pot.
and they never heard about antistatic wriststraps either !

Surely all these people died horrible deaths from flux vapors, flux solvets, and lead poisoning and all of those radio's died a horrible death due to static electricity damage !

[Phaedrus]

OMG ! no fume extraction , no safety glasses, no splashguard or thermal insulating gloves on the solder pot.
and they never heard about antistatic wriststraps either !

Surely all these people died horrible deaths from flux vapors, flux solvets, and lead poisoning and all of those radio's died a horrible death due to static electricity damage !

Nah, they all died of lung cancer from smoking a pack a day since they were eight years old.

[tom66]

Is it me, or is there no legend on that board? Is the hand assembly done entirely by rote?

[free_electron]

OMG ! no fume extraction , no safety glasses, no splashguard or thermal insulating gloves on the solder pot.
and they never heard about antistatic wriststraps either !

Surely all these people died horrible deaths from flux vapors, flux solvets, and lead poisoning and all of those radio's died a horrible death due to static electricity damage !

Nah, they all died of lung cancer from smoking a pack a day since they were eight years old.

that and eating two eggs and charred slices of fatty bacon every morning. surely gave em gut cancers

[xrunner]

It 's amazing the industry that they talk about in the video, being built-up from this radio/TV technology. All the parts made in the USA. It was for years, but it's all gone now.

[Macbeth]

OMG ! no fume extraction , no safety glasses, no splashguard or thermal insulating gloves on the solder pot.
and they never heard about antistatic wriststraps either !

Surely all these people died horrible deaths from flux vapors, flux solvets, and lead poisoning and all of those radio's died a horrible death due to static electricity damage !

Actually, the assembly appears to all be done by the women. The QA testing by the men. I found this entrenched corporate sexism even back in 1990 when I tried applying for a summer job at Plessey Crypto (MOD contractor) - just soldering boards. I was 'over qualified' and male - I would distract the girls apparently. The interviewer strongly advised me to do a HND and sign up with the RAF for a real engineers career like he did. Sorry, but I was skint and starving and the assemblers wage was triple what I could get if I was lucky enough to bag a real "market" job which did not exist at the time in the UK for a 19 year old in college.

Of course we know from stats that women outlive men by around a decade, even when exposed to the evils of non-RoHC.

Mind you, the Radium Girls certainly didn't fare so well!