On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 09:55:30PM -0500, Jamie wrote:
> : http://www.9thtee.com/tivomemory.htm
> thats some of the worst soldering ive seen ! (except when i was doing 
> training...) I saw some stuff... some people just shouldnt be allowed to play 
> with hot surfaces...
> Seriously though, it looks like someone that was maybe an engineer or novice 
> did the soldering. In production, solder joints should all look consistant, 
> shiney, and have nice filets. (and no bridging). 

I know what good soldering looks like and wasn't even considering what the
soldering they'd done looked like.  I was thinking pasting it to give you
an idea of the size of the pins (microscopic to my eyes..)

> I suspect you could do as good as the photo (might want a big magnifying
> glass in your case...)

FWIW, I can't solder a plain DIP of the TTL variety.  I lack the steady
hands to avoid bridging in that sort of situation.

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