At one point in my checkered career, I had to qualify as a NASA soldering inspector as part of my job with an aerospace outfit (Itek Corp).
I recall that the solder must be shiney (to prevent a cold joint) and well wetted out, but the main point was that the solder was not wicked up the wire strands to a significant degree, although at this point I don't remember exactly how much "significant" meant. I had trouble understanding this concept because there was *always* a hard point where the solder/wire transition began, no matter where it began. Norm S/V Bandersnatch Lying Julington Creek 30 07.695N 081 38.484W > The failure always happened at the point where the solder wicking up into the strands formed a hard point. _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
