On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 at 18:07:55, Phoebus Dokos wrote:
(ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
>At 05:25 �� 10/4/2002, you wrote:
>
>Apparently the superHermes is a tough cookie ;-) as it managed to work
>with one pin missing! Which proves that good designs are timeless...
>Hehe Tony (same for you as well Nasta!)
.. depends very much on which pin (8-)#
It is worth repeating publicly what one has to do to 'repair' pins.
Remove the whoe pin - which is soldered on a pad and clean excess solder
off (solder braid is ideal).
The replacement pin can be cut out of a turned pin socket. The socket
can then be used as a template for placing the new pin, which is then
soldered to the pad. The beauty is that the sH is then back to exactly
to production levels. All other designs (Diren/ Falkenburg/ Qimi) are
never quite the same again.... I don't take credit for this though - I
_had_ to use SMD pads, and this feature was a nice side benefit.
I find it crazy though that I have to buy sockets and snip the pins off.
I did get a quote for bare pins, but they cost more than twice as much
as buying the sockets. If anyone knows of a cheap source of pins, I
would be delighted to hear from them.
>Hehe and I cannot believe I was just reading an IQLR issue where you
>were discussing both the QubIDE (yep THAT old... courtesy of Tim
>Swenson - Thanks Tim!) and that ULA replacement from Miracle :-))))
>(Hmmm just a question... what happened to that?)
Stuart simply lost interest. We got quite a way down the design thought
stages, but he then left the QL scene. Ditto IBOX (8-(#
I even started an IBOX project with Leon Heller, but he escaped to rural
France. He bought a house in the Loire valley and emigrated. An
amazing buy for I think �30,000. During negotiations, his French
solicitor said "I have a problem". The 'problem' turned out to be a
large forest that had been left out of the bill of sale. 'No problem'
the solicitor said - the vendor will include it in the sale at no extra
cost. .... so Leon sold everything in the UK and drove with
Volvo/trailer/motorbike and all his worldly possessions to rural France
last year sometime. I must get his address.
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