Re: Soldering Skills

["Rob Zimmerman" <rob@xxxxxxx>]

Most interesting....I just tested my soldering skills on the wiper control unit 
on my 84E28. After tearing apart everything from the steering column-dash to 
the fusebox and chasing all grounds looking for an intermitant "disfunction" of 
my wipers only to finally take aprt the control unit plugged into the fuse panel 
and finding all the outside pegs (connectors) were all loose. I re-soldered 
them and poof.... the wipers now work fine..... only thing I can figure is 
someone must have taken that out several times for those solderjoints to 
loosen up. 

Rob
mwv.org
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> Subject: <All> Soldering Skills
> 
> Hi
> 
> Realizing that my electronics soldering skills have slipped a little and
> to
> also get ready to solder new batteries into an Service Indicator (SI)
> board
> on an E30, I went looking for a soldering refresher course on the net.
> 
> I found this great site
> 
> http://www.epemag.wimborne.co.uk/solderfaq.htm
> 
> 
> 
> This info is just what I was after and apparently others liked it because
> it
> is now also part of the
> 
> Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library.
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Don Stevenson/BMWCCA Boston Chapter 
> 
> 1988 325IS, (to much to list), should have stayed the street car.
> Sharked.
> 
> 1987 325IS, project, should have been the track car. Sharked.
> 
> 1988 Volvo 240 Wagon 5 Speed (green alloy wheels)
> 

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