Marechiare wrote:
>>> Yes, you are missing that you are not allowed to solder
>>> perpendicular surfaces. A piece of wire could be bent to
>>> make a surfaces parallel to PCB; component leads can't
>>> (at least on the component's side).
>>
>> This is the first time I hear anything like this. "Not allowed",
>> by whom?
>
> Are you really in EE-related business?

No, I use it only as a cover for my cannabis farming business. But that's 
not important right now.


> Ask those who repaired old
> valve-based TV sets.

Can anyone confirm what Marechiare is saying? I am almost certain that I 
have seen cheap, brown, production single sided boards that did not have 
plated holes populated with components whose leads are impossible to bend as 
MC suggests. May have been a VCR?

In the SnPb days, I helped built single sided non-PTH boards with DB25 
connectors. Hundreds were built, and as far as I know there were no failures 
due to the DB25 losing connection.

Vitaliy 

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