Desolder the flat gold plated transistor leads. Clean the black residue at the gold - tin interface. Resolder the transistor leads after removing any gold left by tinning the lead and removing the solder a few times.
Gold embrittlement is very common. 73 Glenn WB4UIV At 10:25 PM 8/19/2009, you wrote: >Our club's MSR-2000 repeater recently "ate" it's PA, a TLD-2601A. >Actually it went intermittent on us and several folks have gone over it >with the magnifying glass and reflowed most of the major solder joints >to no avail. > > That's a low split, 100 watt, continuous duty PA. If anyone has one >available we are interested. > >We are in the Baltimore Washington area and could pick up within a >reasonable distance (whatever the heck that is!) rather than shipping >the fairly heavy unit. > >73 de Tom/W4OKW (K3HKI Rpt) > > > > >------------------------------------ > > > >Yahoo! Groups Links > > >
