Jim has a point here, of course. I'm only 53, but my once "aviator-quality" vision now requires quite a bit of augmentation to do close work like SMT...
But I plan to fight it EVERY step of the way.... More magnification, more light, hell... I'll use robot hands if I need to. I like building! ______________________ Clay Autery, KY5G On 8/30/2017 11:00 PM, Jim Brown wrote: > On 8/30/2017 7:30 PM, N4OI - Ken wrote: >> I do not understand the general fear of working with SMT components. > > As you get older, you will. Eyes, steadiness of hand, eye-hand > coordination, all can make working with SMT a challenge. Mine will be > 76 years old in a few months. Several years ago, I learned just enough > to do relatively simple SMT work with fairly large SMT components in a > band pass filter kit. I couldn't even SEE the smaller SMT components > in that kit, and called in reinforcements. > > 73, Jim K9YC ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
