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Hints on handling and soldering strips
Here is a picture of the cheap (black) and the expensive strips. You can see on the white strip where you would cut a section off (THE COPPER OVAL). You cut that in the middle so each side gets 1/2 the copper pad. Then you have to clean off the silicon, which is a pain in the arse. It took me a while to figure out a technique to get the silicon off - you just got till mess with it until you develope a technique - but there are techniques beyond just scraping, which usually end up in destroying the copper run. The black one has had the silicon cleaned off and is ready for soldering. When you get ready to solder set the strip and the wire lead up as shown in an earlier photo. First put some noclean flux on the pad, the heat it up with soldering iron, and add a dap of solder. If it is clean and correct temp the solder will flow onto it. Now set the wire on top and ease in with soldering iron (have the wire adjusted in its alligator clip so it has slight downward pressure on strip.
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Many of my photos there do not relate to Newporters, but a search through my collection may prove useful for your studies.
My drawings are not accurate in many respects as a result of the PAINT program used to draw them, There is no accurate scale and at best they are only useful to indicate some specific detail. Some are inaccurate because of my poor memory. Use them to help you think, not as a detailed presentation of the subject matter.
If any of you want to start a web site I suggest you remember what has happened to both my Ning site and this site (which is a Ning site) and remember that my Blogspot site is free and Blogspot's owner (Google) has promised to keep it that way.
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