Somewhat related, pick and place error. As seen on an arduino mega.
Cap lodged under the SO8 kept it from getting soldered down. Co-worker brought it to me asking why it would only work if the external power source was plugged in and not just from USB.
I would submit this one to the thread.
I'm working on this as we speak. A piece of commercial test gear from the 80's I believe.
Can you get a DNA sample from the bug in the rosin.
... when you hit 60's, it won't matter since you won't remember where you put the roll of solder !!
Mount it on the walker or ask your care giver to find it.
The absolute WORST soldering job I have seen was from the stone age and was made in Chicago of all places. Mind you I am a fan of Hallicrafters, but this S-19R looked like someone flung solder at it from 20 paces. Not only that some of the terminals had so much solder on them and were cold joints I am amazed it even worked! And it had been untouched I am sure as all of the original components were there, dogbone resisters you name it. I probably had to redo well over half of the joints. What a pain for such a mediocre radio...
So much for quality in America. I suppose even then it was a fallacy. Especially for cheap stuff built to a price point.
On a positive note I think it lost a good half pound or so from all the excess solder I removed. I have seen Heathkits where people didn't know what they were doing look better then this thing....
I think this one has appeared before on the EEVBlog:
http://xenu.com-it.net/meter/e-meter_e.htm
I had assumed that these things were made in somebody's garage, on a one-off basis, but apparently not!
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/E-Meter/
Well, since those things don't do anything useful by default, and are there to just randomly wiggle a meter movement, i think it doesn't really matter how it looks on the inside
As long as it wiggles the movement enough, so that the suckers can be relieved of their money, they work as intended...
Greetings,
Chris
I think this one has appeared before on the EEVBlog:
http://xenu.com-it.net/meter/e-meter_e.htm
I had assumed that these things were made in somebody's garage, on a one-off basis, but apparently not!
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/E-Meter/
Well, since those things don't do anything useful by default, and are there to just randomly wiggle a meter movement, i think it doesn't really matter how it looks on the inside As long as it wiggles the movement enough, so that the suckers can be relieved of their money, they work as intended...
I believe that tons of left over flux is actually a good thing to trap the Thetans.
a microphone i bought off ebay
Ouch... When I fixed my walkman headphone, on a camping trip, with a nail heated up with a camping-gas burner as a soldering-iron replacement it looked better than that.
Large resolution (THE HORROR):
I'm imagining some person buying those overpriced spools of like a foot of pipe solder to use it on this.