At 07:10 AM 12/17/02 -0600, Dale L Martin wrote:
>Thanks for bringing this subject up.
>
>For seven or eight of my 34 years with NASA, I was a flight certified
>solderer (electronics technician) building stuff to fly on the shuttle
>orbiters--some of my stuff is still flying.
>
>I'd looked arund the 'net for our 'bible', but never could find it...till
>now...
>
>Want to find out the proper way to solder? Read this:
>
>http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/codeq/sldrbch1.pdf
Fascinating -- when you consider that going back and redoing some of this
stuff on spacecraft could be a $100 million proposition (ask the Space
Telescope guys), it is worth REALLY doing right.
73, Pete N4ZR
Happy Holidays
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