Okay, last solder experiment of the day. Let’s try leaded on a pcb. With some of the new 24 awg solid core I bought. Result: beautiful. Far better than the older lead-free soldering I did on same board.
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(top row is old lead-free, bottom row is new ones with leaded… night and day)
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Final task for the day: test out the heat gun and shrink tubes I bought. This I’ve done before… in 1998.
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Let’s add a heat shrink to the battery holder lead I fixed earlier. Slide it on, grab gun…
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And… it just worked. No story here. I have a nicely fixed batter holder now.
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Let’s wrap for today with a clean-up note. I’ve really learned to appreciate the value of leaving a workshop as clean as you can for next time. Silicone mat is a mess after all that genius work. But I have discovered an easy genius clean-up hack: a bit of tape!
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Voila!
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On the menu for next time: trying to solder leads onto male JST connectors. These are designed for board-to-wire boardside, not wire-to-wire, so you have to solder on rather than crimp on.
Also: try these solder-seal connectors that can be done with a heat gun.
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Fixed a charger for the halo strap that got chewed up by cat. Had to cut away chewed up part, strip the two coax conductors and solder them. Worst job ever but it does work again. I ended up twisting ends together pointed the same direction. It was too hard to do a butt join.
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For extra credit fixed chewed up MacBook charger too. Cats are a menace. They almost cost more in chewed up cords and cables than food.
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