If you MUST reball the dragon, at least make sure it is a MALE dragon. The
consequences of attempting to "reball" a female dragon are too terrible to
contemplate.....
Reed / WW3A
On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 5:15 PM, Clayton Brantley via TenTec <
tentec@contesting.com> wrote:
> Dragons are bad enough to deal with, much less re-balling them! My advice
> is to let them
> alone and you'll not be missing things that are important to your survival.
>
> Clayton N4EV
> --------------------------------------------
> On Fri, 4/1/16, Wade Staggs <tvman1954@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] reballing a Dragon
> To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@contesting.com>
> Date: Friday, April 1, 2016, 4:57 PM
>
> *Really simplified version.... O.K.?
> Back in the good old days, electronic
> components had wire leads. Now we have SMT or Surface Mount
> Technology. So
> now on Microprocessors and other LSI or Large Scale
> Integration components.
> There are tiny Pads or Lands on the bottom of the device. At
> the factory
> these components have tiny Balls of solder on each lead,
> sometimes over 200
> leads or pin connections could be on the device. In the new
> technology, the
> Chip is placed on the board by a very fast and precise
> machine. The board
> will then go through a multi-stage Oven which has a minimum
> of Heat-up,
> Solder or Bond and then the cool down stage. Going through
> this oven on a
> conveyor belt, the oven can be over 50 feet long. The
> circuit board has no
> holes for component leads to pass through. I have repaired
> many video games
> and other devices with a simple Paint Stripping Gun. It
> takes a light hand
> and a handheld infrared thermometer is a must so that you
> don't cook the
> board. It is very easy to do lots more harm to the device.
> Repairs of the
> Xbox 360 have financed several of my Boat Anchor Restoration
> Projects. Try
> goggling " The Red Ring of Death "*
> *
> 73 from Wade/KJ4WS*
>
> On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 1:04 PM, Tony <va3dwi@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Showing my age here hi... hi. What's reballing?
> Thanks.
> > 73, Tony VE3DWI.
> >
> > Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Bell
> network.
> > Original Message
> > From: John Henry
> > Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2016 13:03
> > To: tentec@contesting.com
> > Reply To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
> > Subject: [TenTec] reballing a Dragon
> >
> > The problem wasn't always in reballing.
> > There were problems in that the part sat on a shelf for
> 15 years, not in a
> > clean room, and somewhere along the line got hit with
> ESD, or too hot one
> > day, random circuits inside the chip failed, etc.
> >
> > I do however doubt that if 20 people tried to scavenge
> some dragonballs and
> > had to replace it, well, maybe 4 in 20 would be happy
> at the end of the
> > day, the other 16 would probably be buying a new rig.
> just my two cents.
> > So many pitfalls along the way, the chips are at least
> 15 years old,
> > storage, excessive heat, etc.
> > Yield of TEN-TEC trying to do this using a couple of
> excellent BGA board
> > houses to replace them was very low.
> >
> > 73, KI4JPL
> > John Henry
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