There is no engineering reason for soldering as you go a la Heathkit vs.
installing groups of components and then soldering them. I have had both
problems mentioned by Skip in my years of building kits: overlooked solder
joints and components in the wrong holes. In my experience, looking for a
On 2024-03-07 15:40, Fred Jensen wrote:
I'm colorblind and can't read color codes so every resistor
was checked with the ohmmeter. I asked my wife once to read a couple
of color codes ... "That one is sort of a pinkish salmon, this one is
a light mauve." Gave up on that.
I've sort of given
Back in the point-to-point wiring days it was common to place a number
of components at once, folding the leads/wires over the terminals and
then soldering all of them. It was said to cut down on misplaced
components because you were focused on selecting the right components
and placing them
Hello and thanks in advance for your help. I’m just getting going on my K2
build and I don’t understand the reasoning behind putting all the capacitors in
the PCB, bending their leads to hold them in place, and then soldering them all
at the end? This seems to me create a big mess with
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