tarzan boy Posted August 30, 2005 Report Share Posted August 30, 2005 Hello, I started on my 1st core soldering last night; I spent a few hours soldering stuff on and off an old fax machine board first to get the feel of my new soldering iron. Today after finishing the resistors I tried to solder on the crystal but had a lot of difficulty doing it (I'm using the TK designed board where the crystal is soldered to the back.) I had to remove and resolder the crystal 3 times because of bad connections and solder spills that shorted another etching nearby. Now, after cleaning and meter testing, all the connections seem to be isolated but I'm a little scared that my crystal has been fried by the combined 15-20 seconds of 350-400C I put on the leads only a few millimeters from the outer body of the crystal. I have no tools to measure (I've just searched old topics and found that you can measure the crystal with an ocilliscope) so I would like to know if it is possible to fry the thing or has anyone had an experience of it frying?thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwx Posted August 31, 2005 Report Share Posted August 31, 2005 Hi!I don´t really know how easy it is to fry a crystal..... but I would build the core module and try if it works...if not, you can replace the crystral later :)greets,pwx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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