Things that made you smile today

[Brit-Car-Nut]

And they say you can't teach and old dog new tricks!

Congrats. I bet your hands were shaking after you finished.

I can't even see a .5mm pitch clearly without thick glasses.

[HJ2]

I've successfully soldered a device with a 0.5mm lead pitch to a bare copper pcb. To put this in perspective, the board did not have a solder resist layer and the solder I was using was 0.5mm diameter.

Nice one!

Remembers me of the days when i overclocked Toshiba Libretto's (Laptop the size of a VHS Video Tape)
164 pins processor and i needed to solder pin 13something to a 5V source on the PCB Most challenging was marking the correct pin, not the soldering, haha!

in the end i painted all feet black, except the one i needed to solder.

[John_W]

What are you all talking about?
I expect this sort of random lunacy from Geoff, however it's a sad day when several people have replied without taking the piss.
What has happened to this great online community?

[dapinky]

I expect this sort of random lunacy from Geoff, however it's a sad day when several people have replied without taking the piss.
What has happened to this great online community?

Okay, John - I've got it......


....Geoff, you should have asked Sarah to help - apparently she's used to dealing with 'short lengths'

[John_W]

I expect this sort of random lunacy from Geoff, however it's a sad day when several people have replied without taking the piss.
What has happened to this great online community?

Okay, John - I've got it......


....Geoff, you should have asked Sarah to help - apparently she's used to dealing with 'short lengths'

Thanks Dave. My farts are repulsive.

[GeoffSmith]

Take that you double posters.....

[WienLot]

Guys, sometimes I wonder if it's my English understanding, or if I missed something...
With the above mysterious however certainly smart exchanges...You lost me and it may be I am not the only one

[dapinky]

Take that you double posters.....

What are you on about???

(and if you get Chris to fix the forum so it doesn't show things as 'not posted' I wouldn't have to do so much editing)

[Brit-Car-Nut]

Guys, sometimes I wonder if it's my English understanding, or if I missed something...
With the above mysterious however certainly smart exchanges...You lost me and it may be I am not the only one

It's an electronic thing...

[GeoffSmith]

Guys, sometimes I wonder if it's my English understanding, or if I missed something...
With the above mysterious however certainly smart exchanges...You lost me and it may be I am not the only one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECXL9GNDyxo&t=1m35s

Except he had it easy - the green layer is solder resist which helps stop the solder bridging between the pins. He's probably younger than me as well before the geologit and ex-plod say anything.

[HJ2]

That's REALY easy (the stuff in the video) you old hag!

[GeoffSmith]

It is with solder resist!

[GeoffSmith]

And today I did it again. But this time, just to make it interesting, they had had their encapsulation etched away so the die were exposed.

[HJ2]

You go girl!

[John_W]

Thanks Dave. My farts are repulsive.

While I can't argue the factual accuracy of that statement, I'm pretty sure that it's not what I replied at the time.
I guess I'll just have to take out a subscription to "Soldering Today", "Hot Irons", "Get Fluxed" or whatever Geoff's been reading too much of recently.

John

[Stef]

Not quite 'today' but is still making me giggle

Was an extra playing a zombie for ZombieEarth in Leicester scaring the paying 'survivors' who had to pass through our zone to collect their next clue!

Awesome fun and a super event!

Crown Court Crew.jpg

Police car.jpg

[Peter_W]

Just completed a minor home improvement project - I'm really pleased with the result. In fact I believe it's one of the best one hour projects I've ever completed in eight hours.

[WienLot]

What made me smile today?...: well, certainly not all the bloody tricks to access and remove the outer door strips I had to discover and test , and sorry guys... despite all very valuable advises and 'do-it-youself' guides. Now I just hope that reinstalling everything back will not bring additional mess or trap.
WienLot

[TrevorB]

What made me smile today?...: well, certainly not all the bloody tricks to access and remove the outer door strips I had to discover and test , and sorry guys... despite all very valuable advises and 'do-it-youself' guides. Now I just hope that reinstalling everything back will not bring additional mess or trap.
WienLot

That gives us non-mechanics lots of confidence when we tackle the project! Any help in the relevant thread would be
of great assistance. Will probably wait until New Year now before I/we make any start on it.



Trevor

[Fredjohn]

Had to smile to myself at this. It would be cheaper to buy the car itself (just!)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lotus-Elan-Ospr ... lotus+elan