[sdiy] My frustration as a technician..

[Dave Manley]

What's that really old song: smoke gets in your eyes?

I can do the same, stii watch out for solder flicking off something into your eye.

-------- Original Message --------
 From: Scott Gravenhorst <music.maker at gte.net>
 Sent: Fri, May 10, 2013 12:36 PM
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 Subject: Re: [sdiy] My frustration as a technician..

>
>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.
>
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