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eyelets, single sided boards, and arthritis

2011-04-07 by within walking distance

I was never very good at soldering when I was young.  Now that I am in my late 50's and arthritis has started to affect my hands, my soldering skills have become worse.  In particular I spend more time repairing solder bridges than the actual soldering.  All this heat on the PCB results in a few pads lifting off.  

This is where the eyelets could come in.  I would like to use eyelets as rivets, forcing pads back into place that have peeled up.  I've seen some on-line but the prices seem rather high.  Does anyone know of a source of reasonably priced eyelets?

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