Perhaps she'd find it easier if she turned the board over as well...
Looks like smd soldering. You need a hot iron for that, and the safety shirt has two flame proof pockets should things get too close.
Looks like a normal electric powered iron, and plastic safety glasses....I would use glass lenses.
SMD stations have a thicker nozzle and air hose.
This has a thin wire, no air hose.
Holes above the girl's fingers, in the part where the heater is normally placed.
Consistent with electric iron.
There may be units with heater in nozzle, still would need air hose.
Just my two cents......
If it was plugged in, the girl's face would not be so serene....
This has a thin wire, no air hose.
Holes above the girl's fingers, in the part where the heater is normally placed.
Consistent with electric iron.
There may be units with heater in nozzle, still would need air hose.
Just my two cents......
If it was plugged in, the girl's face would not be so serene....
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Hey NareshBrd - lighten up. I do smd soldering with an iron similar to the one she is holding, but I hold it differently. And I wear glass lenses, but it's to actually see what I'm doing at my age. And I also use solder wire, and tweezers which this lady does not. She is obviously very good at this.
I can assure you she is not soldering anything! Most likely she has never soldered anything. Also the photographer hasn’t ever used a soldering iron.
I would have to look through my collection of soldering irons to pin down the exact model of iron. It looks like one of them. The hint that the iron has been used is there is discoloration on the barrel. So someone involved did have a clue.
I would have to look through my collection of soldering irons to pin down the exact model of iron. It looks like one of them. The hint that the iron has been used is there is discoloration on the barrel. So someone involved did have a clue.
Let's move along.
12 posts concerning a dumb photo about a soldering iron...
And the usual nitpicking, which starts to get boring....
Who the hell cares what brand of iron it is, what material her safety glasses are made from....
I can understand people wanting to put their 'two cents in'.... but jeez.
12 posts concerning a dumb photo about a soldering iron...
And the usual nitpicking, which starts to get boring....
Who the hell cares what brand of iron it is, what material her safety glasses are made from....
I can understand people wanting to put their 'two cents in'.... but jeez.
Galu..
In all the years that I've been doing servicing and restoration work, I've luckily only gotten a few, maybe 5 or 6 irate, stubborn, or insane customers that were impossible to please.
That, in comparing to the thousands of other customers I would say is a pretty decent track record.
Those few nasty customers clearly had something wrong up in their brains, and must not have been taking their medications.
I'm familier with OCD when I see it, and signs of Bipolar, as well as ADHD issues.
And I tend to distance myself from people with such issues, however at the repair shop that's not possible, so thank god I'm now retired and "made it out alive" to be able to enjoy retirement.
I've also noticed that back in the 1970's and 1980's, these types of individuals were not as prevalent as in today's society, and I have to wonder why these things are becoming increasingly common.
It's a bit concerning, for sure.
Nevertheless, I don't allow it to affect me, I'm a stubborn old coot with firmly-rooted beliefs based on reality and experience.
That's a funny photo.
But seriously, my feet are planted firmly on the ground, not floating in some alternate reality.
--||-- a capacitor, fundamentally two plates and an insulator.
I know what it does, and how it works.
But, I get on the internet, and get a plethora of beliefs from individuals concerned with obsessing over things that will never become important enough to cause me grief or change my life.
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I fully agree with you. How come nobody asked what type of motherboard is that?
Oh lord, those European/German radios!...... I've restored-done plenty of them!
The guys at the shop would always know that when one of those radios came in, they'd be treated to plenty of curse-words coming from my bench.
Not so much that they're so complicated and difficult to work on, but being decades old, they've had unprofessional hands in them, making my job much harder.
And that translates to an increasing backlog of work, which other customers waiting sometimes get annoyed with.
One woman brought me a bottom line/cheap old "Emud" brand radio.
She apparently dug it out of an old barn and thought she had a treasure.
The cabinet was literally falling apart from wood rot, the chassis was rusted beyond hope.
I told her is was not worth the trouble to repair - too far gone.
And she threatened to sue me, accusing me of causing the damage. LOL!
A real nut case!
......And if it was a "B" revision, and which factory/manufacturer it came from.
I guess that was one of the “5 or 6 impossible to please irate customers”?
Or were there really more than that?
Yes, she was "one of those nutbags".
And to my recollection, the 5 or 6 mentioned is close enough, I'm not about to jog memory of 45 years worth of customers in a busy shop.
Let's put it this way.... so you have no more questions about it...
I could 'count on one hand' how many nutbags there were, out of thousands that I've dealt with, no need to question that I'm downplaying things.
Or are you simply trying to gain some benefit by insisting on "absolute accuracy"?