Fw: [motm] Pass through holes?
2005-01-14 by groovyshaman
This was meant to go to the group... ----- Original Message ----- From: "groovyshaman" <groovyshaman@...> To: "sduck409" <sduck409@...> Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 11:50 PM Subject: Re: [motm] Pass through holes? > One suggestion - if you plan to go back over the boards to solder the vias > AFTER all of the other components have been soldered, use no-clean solder. > Using organic solder would require you to wash the board again, and some > parts would not respond well to that (such as pots). Especially if you wash
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> in tap water and not distilled, as that can leave a mineral residue. > > Actually I'm curious, does anyone else do a once over on their boards with > distilled water, after scrubbing under the tap? > > George > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "sduck409" <sduck409@...> > To: <motm@yahoogroups.com> > Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 11:13 PM > Subject: [motm] Pass through holes? > > > > > > So I was soldering up the prestuffed resistors on my 480 this evening > > (mmm...prestuffed! I could get used to this luxury...) and I had this > > nagging question that I thought might be apropriate for this board. I > > noticed this pcb has lots of pass through holes, or whatever those > > little holes are called. Some of the kits have instructions to seek > > out and fill these holes, and some of the kits don't (the 480 > > quick-kit doesn't mention them). My guess is that it has something to > > do with who manufactures the board, and/or the board design. Does > > anyone have any further insight on this? Should I just be filling them > > willy-nilly? Just for the heck of it I filled some of them on the 480 > > board, but there are a LOT of them - getting them all would be a large > > undertaking. > > > > Steve Drake