[Ql-Users] Blowtorches
I see from the current issue of Quanta that a joky quote of the show referring to Lee's removal of components from pcbs using a blow torch. This is not a joke. I too used a purpose built 2kw hot air gun to selectively remove components from QL pcbs. This I suspect is similar to the 'blow torch' Lee used - nothing like the gas powered paint strippers one no doubt imagines. After much practise I managed to remove a whole dodgy std 68008 socket on its own. A quick re-blast on the pads and the new turned pin socket popped in without soldering. It was not possible to detect that it was not the original soldering. I must have removed thousands of components in this way, including the uhf modulator. Tony -- t...@firshman.co.uk http://firshman.co.uk Voice: +44(0)1442-828254 Fax: +44(0)1442-828255 Skype: tonyfirshman TF Services, 29 Longfield Road, TRING, Herts, HP23 4DG ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
[Ql-Users] qStripper updated to 1.04
Evening all, qStripper has been updated to version 1.04 thanks to Geoff Wicks who supplied me with a lot of conversion codes for the DOS version of Quill. I've added these in and so far, everything looks good. Version 1.03 came and went. There was a problem - still is - with the Euro character in Windows. It has always been a problem but while it converts happily in Linux where the Euro is character $80 or 128, in Windows 32 bit, at least, the Euro is character $80 or 128 but displays as a blob in character sets that have the Euro (Courier NEW for example). I can still type in a Euro with no problems, but I think it's a two byte Unicode Euro that is used and not a single character one. However, UFN, the Euro on Windows is a problem. The download location is at https://sourceforge.net/projects/qstripper/files/ and from there you can pick your required OS version. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Blowtorches
Evening Tony, On 09/05/12 14:09, Tony Firshman wrote: I see from the current issue of Quanta that a joky quote of the show referring to Lee's removal of components from pcbs using a blow torch. This is not a joke. I too used a purpose built 2kw hot air gun to selectively remove components from QL pcbs. This I suspect is similar to the 'blow torch' Lee used - nothing like the gas powered paint strippers one no doubt imagines. My image when I hear the word blowtorch is of my dad filling his with paraffin and pumping it for what seemed ages to get some pressure up and then a huge blue flame! It was a big brass thing with a decent reservoir for fuel, taps and pumps, possibly a Primus but I'm not sure. I think he still has it, somewhere! We used to to melt lead for fishing weights. Also melted a few of my mothers old pans, aluminium I think. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Blowtorches
On 09/05/2012 20:34, Norman Dunbar wrote: Evening Tony, On 09/05/12 14:09, Tony Firshman wrote: I see from the current issue of Quanta that a joky quote of the show referring to Lee's removal of components from pcbs using a blow torch. This is not a joke. I too used a purpose built 2kw hot air gun to selectively remove components from QL pcbs. This I suspect is similar to the 'blow torch' Lee used - nothing like the gas powered paint strippers one no doubt imagines. My image when I hear the word blowtorch is of my dad filling his with paraffin and pumping it for what seemed ages to get some pressure up and then a huge blue flame! It was a big brass thing with a decent reservoir for fuel, taps and pumps, possibly a Primus but I'm not sure. I think he still has it, somewhere! We used to to melt lead for fishing weights. Also melted a few of my mothers old pans, aluminium I think. Cheers, Norm. apologies for getting OT here but I remember (just) those and I have a pump from one in a shed (well I'm sure I'll use it one of these days) also we had lamps of similar technology, you pumped them up then lit the mantle a delicate lace like item that had to be burnt off when new, interestingly I learnt a lot later that said mantle were highly radioactive and probably still are All the best - Bill (typing whilst emitting a strange fluorescent blue glow) ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [Ql-Users] Blowtorches
Norman Dunbar wrote: My image when I hear the word blowtorch is of my dad filling his with paraffin and pumping it for what seemed ages to get some pressure up and then a huge blue flame! That was my reaction when I heard Lee make the remark at the Quanta Workshop in Manchester. Actually, the notion of whacking the board against something to make the chips/sockets fall out after heating was what tickled me most! I have managed to fry a few components using just a soldering iron over the years, never mind a blowtorch :-) Dilwyn Jones ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
