Em 4/3/2010 15:04, Vitaliy escreveu: > Isaac Marino Bavaresco wrote: > "I have a friend that bends the tip of all the pins and jumpers on the > bottom side of the boards, but he does this because his products are > used in motorcycles that have too much vibration." > > We used to bend the leads on our boards simply to hold the component in = > place until it is soldered in. > > Vitaliy = > = Our boards are kept horizontally all the time. They are soldered in a solder bath, so we don't need to turn them belly-up before they are soldered. We also preform the leads of most of our components, so they don't need to be cut afterwards. The fact that the leads are short help to avoid them being "pushed-up" by the superficial tension of the solder (or the hydrostatic pressure maybe, remember that Sn-Pb is very heavy, iron floats on it). Regards, Isaac __________________________________________________ Fa=E7a liga=E7=F5es para outros computadores com o novo Yahoo! Messenger = http://br.beta.messenger.yahoo.com/ = -- = http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist