[sdiy] My frustration as a technician..

[Scott Gravenhorst]

Ian Fritz <ijfritz at comcast.net> wrote:
>At 01:08 PM 5/10/2013, Dave Manley wrote:
>>Terry, about getting older and vision - pretty soon we wont be able to 
>>work on thru- hole without magnification so really it doesnt matter.  :-p
>
>I haven't been able to do that for years. A lot of the time I even need 
>double magnification.  Don't worry about it though, it's not all that 
>bad.  What's bad is when your shoulder is so screwed up you can't even lift 
>the soldering iron.
>

Heh - I thought I would never be able to solder SMD...  At least Schmartboards seem to
help, but one thing in my favor (and I'm a sexegenarian now) is the fact that I have
rather severe myopia.  It's correctable with lenses and if I take my spectacles off, my
eyes work like a low power microscope.  I've been able to solder (so far) down to .5 mm
pitch TQFP.  YMMV.

-- ScottG
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