[sdiy] what do cold solder joints look like?/csq update

[Scott Gravenhorst]

I had this happen on a Kensington trackball.  Made it do the 
wierdest things.  It was wave soldered, and there just wasn't much
solder hoding the micro-DIN to the PCB and it cracked.  Again,
simply touching with an iron and a smidgen of solder fixed it.

mark verbos <a0284520 at addcom.de> wrote:
>Incidentally, this is the cause of what the recording engineers i worked with
>call "roland-ittus". That's when the power or sync jack only work with the
>cable positioned in just the right way. Sometimes you have to wrap the cable
>around the unit to get the necessary tension.
>
>The power and sync jacks on those x0x boxes were mounted on the circuitboard.
>The joints get cracked after repeated in and out of the plugs. All you do is
>touch up the joints and it works again.
>
>
>--
>mark verbos
>
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>
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