A particular BJ you shoudn't...

[VacuumVoodoo]

...give or accept

[Reeltarded]

haha!

The work melts the solder, not the iron. No fans in the room aiming at the work either. People are stupid. Seemingly smart people can be even stupider.

[boots]

They probably think that cold solder joints are not an issue with eutectic solder? Either that, or they aren't paying their solderers enough to give a crap.

[NickC]

I have a fan over my solder station area. It's a small fan. But it's pointed away from the work ..... to pull solder fumes away from me inhaling them.

[Reeltarded]

Rosin core makes me get heartburn but otherwise I think I am probably ok, sort of. We used to play with mercury and chew baseboards.

-shrug-

[VacuumVoodoo]

They probably think that cold solder joints are not an issue with eutectic solder? Either that, or they aren't paying their solderers enough to give a crap.

Worse than that. It was a milspec'd project so the (sub)contractor should have used solderers trained and certified to relevant standards. How management handled the issue is an even worse story.
Anyone still surprised guitar amps quality is 10 below zero?

[Reeltarded]

solderers trained and certified

Heresy! Crazy talk! Burn yourself, witch!!

[briane]

In my experience in industry - which is more than I like to admit....

This is Typical business practice - I've see it hundreds of times - they wonder why their crap doesnt work and other's rule the market - it simple


You machine no WORKY_WORKY!

-as dilbert says.......ps. dilbert is not a comic - its a lessonbook for those going to work in an office - almost every comic in dilbert I have seen performed by some executive bonehead.

I think they should change the term executive to bonehead.

[roberto]

I work in the beverage industry, and we work only with pros in stainless steel soldering (they must have a welder certification and must pass new tests every year).

Really there are no similar standards for military electronic supplyers?
Maybe money lubrication is a better standard.

[JazzGuitarGimp]

Really there are no similar standards for military electronic supplyers?

When I worked in aerospace, some 30 years ago, all of our solderers had to be NASA certified.

[Structo]

Perhaps the image should look like this?

[Phil_S]

NASA soldering guide here...only 97 pages:
http://snebulos.mit.edu/projects/refere ... 39-3-2.pdf

OTOH, Heathkit managed to cover it in 2 pages, attached.

[Chuck Millen]

I kind of like the smell of solder burning in the morning.

Smells like........Victory...