[Amps] Solder flux

[Carl]

I had so many problems with a Paragon and later an Orion that I just sent 
them back for whatever refund they wanted to give me. Luckily I kept the 
TS-930 and then the TS-940 and have completely removed Ten-Tec from any 
consideration.
I also get a fair number of their amps in to repair.

Carl
KM1H


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Colin Lamb" <k7fm at teleport.com>
To: "Mark K5AM" <k5am at zianet.com>; <amps at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 12:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Amps] Solder flux


> "Why is new solder better?"
>
> Many years ago, my Ten-Tec Paragon PLL failed.  A call to Ten-Tec tech 
> informed me that was a common problem, due to bad wave soldering on the 
> PLL boards.  He recommended sucking all of the solder out and resoldering.
>
> Thinking I was smarter than the Ten-Tec tech, I carefully resoldered each 
> joint on the board.  Unfortunately, I still had the same problem. 
> Defeated, I did as told and removed the solder from each joint and 
> resoldered.  And, yes it worked perfectly, and is still working.
>
> I still do not understand why the resoldering did not work - but from this 
> point, I remove the old solder as Carl does.
>
> 73,  Colin  K7FM
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