[sdiy] pros and cons of SMT in DIY

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… and I've seen vintage Sequential Circuits and Oberheim that were reworked at the factory to fix PCB errors, and those wires lasted for decades. Not sure whether it was magnet wire, wire-wrap wire, or something else, but solid core wire inside a chassis is not going to move very much. If it might move, then reworkers typically glue down pieces until it's stationary.

On May 19, 2017, at 6:48 PM, MOB <mob at mindspring.com> wrote:
> For years, I've seen magnet wire used in portable ham radio equipment that was carried in packs, banged around in cars, and operated out of doors in all sorts of conditions.  Construction methods included dead bug, ugly, through-hole PC and SMT PC.  As long as solder joint integrity was good at each end, there was never a problem with the magnet wire connections.
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> On 5/19/2017 9:06 PM, cheater00 cheater00 wrote:
>> Magnet wire is mechanically fragile and does not survive long unless you leave the device completely alone. It's fine for testing or debugging but that's all. IMO not good for a piece of musical equipment that gets played or even... moved