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“Charlie Wilson: These things happened. They were glorious and they changed the world… and then we f_____ up the endgame.
Gust Avrakotos: There’s a little boy and on his 14th birthday he gets a horse… and everybody in the village says, “how wonderful. The boy got a horse” And the Zen master says, “we’ll see.” Two years later, the boy falls off the horse, breaks his leg, and everyone in the village says, “How terrible.” And the Zen master says, “We’ll see.” Then, a war breaks out and all the young men have to go off and fight… except the boy can’t cause his legs all messed up. and everybody in the village says, “How wonderful.”
Charlie Wilson: Now the Zen master says, “We’ll see.”
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Is there a difference between Lead-Free Soldering Stations vs. Leaded Soldering Stations?
In my estimation, there is a substantial difference for soldering stations built for lead-free soldering vs. the old standard lead soldering. A few of the particulars are heat upper levels, heat recovery, and localized heat intensity. Yes, there are many soldering stations that don’t specify that they are for lead-free soldering, and I would suggest staying away from these. I can also tell you from first hand experience and that of most of my readers that have sent me emails, who have tried to use their old Weller soldering stations and even other high end Hakko soldering stations designed for the lead solder, that it doesn’t work for lead-free soldering.
It is important to realize that just about everything in electronics life is going to lead-free PCB designs. With the new laws on the books in just about all the major developed countries of the world, electronic manufacturers are building boards with components that are all soldered in place using lead-free solder. It only makes sense to get a lead-free soldering station today. You don’t have to spend an arm and a leg to get a good quality soldering station, but you definitely should look for one that specifies that it is designed for lead-free soldering. Some manufactures also have special lead-free soldering tips requiring special maintenance in keeping the tips from wearing out.
Solder wetting issues are another factor with lead-free soldering. It takes more heat to melt lead-free solder. And, because of the increase in the heat required to melt lead-free solder, the tips will tend to wear out faster. There are some common sense approaches to maintaining tip life, such as: turning the heat down when not required, keeping the tip tinned properly to prevent oxidation, and use proper solders with flux cores designed for lead-free soldering repairs.
Yes, you can use lead-free soldering stations with leaded solder, but keep the temperatures down and never use acid core solder for electronic repairs.
I would also suggest reading this article for Lead Free Soldering Tips in order to have a better understanding of the difficulties facing PCB repair folks today. If you want to make a quality repair on a circuit board that uses lead-free solder to begin with, you need to do it with a quality lead-free soldering station.
3 months ago
In case anyone hasn’t heard, Google Pages is being transfered to Google Sites. However, while the transfer is going to occur with the pages themselves, the files that are stored at Google Pages will not be migrating with the site itself. That means that the images will likly stop showing at some point in time. This wouldn’t be so bad if I just had one or two images here and there on display in other pages, but I have a ton of images and files being stored at Google Pages.
I have been in a mad rush for the past week trying to download, move, update pages, update blog templates, and just plain look through two years or more of stuff. Not a fun job.
I wish the pictures would stay at Google Pages, but when you get something for free, the provider can always change the rules I guess. It still is a pain in the rear pages so-to-speak.
I calculate that I am at around 30% completed on this process. I have more clients that need to have their pictures updated too. Most people don’t have a clue as to what is involved with updating and changing the url links for every single picture here or there.
When a picture is grabbed from one location and displayed in another, (also known as hotlinking) it is using the bandwidth from the other location. A little here, a little there, and a little everywhere. Some say this is stealing bandwidth. Maybe yes, maybe no. If you have two websites, and share the pictures betweeen them, then it is pretty hard to steal bandwidth from yourself.
Back to copy and paste of the img src urls. By-the-way, the image html code looks like this in the code: <img src=”http://pwebs.net/images/marketingonline.jpg” alt=”Internet Marketing Services” />. The section after the src is the actual address (location) of the picture online.
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7 months ago
“Geni is a private place for your family to build your family tree, preserve your history and share your lives.”
“Use Geni to: Build your family tree, preserve your family history, share family photos and videos, celebrate birthdays, anniversaries and other events, create profiles for your children, and memorialize loved ones using a cool build your own family tree for free.
Geni is private and secure too. Only the people in your family tree can see your tree and profile”
www.geni.com
One of the coolest Web 2.0 applications of 2009, according to Jim Warholic.
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10 months ago
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Now you can save hundreds of dollars on Apple iMac G5 repairs with this inside knowledge of how to fix your broken down iMac G5 computer. Are you experiencing intermittent shut down problems? Are you seeing strange lines on the display. Is your iMac display flashing at you? Well, you probably have the problem that thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of Apple iMac G5 owners are experiencing.
I was told by Apple, that my Apple repair was going to cost me 800 dollars or more. Or they suggested, I could get a new iMac and I would only have to spent just over a thousand dollars on a new one. But, I found out how to fix it myself and save over $750.00.
Now, you too can save mega bucks on your iMac. Learn the inside fix iMac G5 repair secrets and see for yourself. Go to the Apple iMac G5 repair talk, and bring your beautiful white box back to life today.
Jim
10 months ago
