[sdiy] the most frustrating problem.. semi OT

[Harry Bissell Jr]

For just this reason... I use solid bus wire
covered in Teflon insulated sleeve.  You can
easily cut the sleeve to length (unlike STRIPPING
Teflon wire...) and you cannot melt the Teflon
with a soldering iron.

Second best choice is Kynar insulated wire... it CAN
be melted but you have to work at it.

(worst if PVC, which melts under a stern look :^)

H^) harry


--- ryan <destrukto at gmx.net> wrote:
> i just spent all day, (about 12 hours straight)
> trying to find out why my circuit wasn't working
> when it worked just yesterdsay. I tried everything I
> could think of before rebuilding the section which I
> thought could be bad. It still didn't work, then I
> realized that a tiny jumper wire was resting on a
> resistor lead. It turns out that when I soldered in
> the resistor it melted a hole in the wire, so small
> i couldn't tell it was there....    but now I'm so
> relieved I had to tell someone. 
> 
> If I hadn't worked this out tonight the chances of
> finishing this project by the due date would have
> been very small. so this is mostly OT cause the
> project is not a synth but a a robot car with gps
> navigation.
> 
> ryan...
>