Hey, don't know if anyone else has figured this out, but Radio Shack sells those great little butane-powered soldering irons.
I love mine, because you can really 'fine-tune' the heat setting, it's cordless, and you only need to refill it like once every Century!
Don't use it around open sources of fire, though. ;^)
Gor
To: korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com
From: atom@...
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 07:37:46 +1300
Subject: Re: [korgpolyex] eagle has landed
On Thu, 18 Dec 2008, Michael Hawkins wrote:
> Solder? I don't think so. Jumper wire, yes.
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hehe... i did say "first glance" ;)
> The only thing I find annoying about the boards is that the IC solder
> pads are a tad on the small side.
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a good pointy tip on the soldering iron should cope with that. i'm also
impressed that the boards are coated... that's a very nice extra that will
keep the traces from disintegrating over time. i have seen kits that
skipped that step.
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