AVR-Chat

At 08:48 AM 6/03/2005, you wrote:

>If you paste is "wet" enough to work, and solders ok, there is no long
>term disadvantage to be expected.

It seems fluid enough. The tube was never opened. There
was quite a bit of yellowish stuff when I first squirted
the syringe but then it turned pasty grey. Well I will
try and use it in a week or so when I get my modified
'work horse' board which changed from a Motorola HC711
micro to a M64 (or M128) micro....what in the world will
I do with 64K (or 128K) of flash...my largest program so
far is about 6k. I guess I could rewrite everything in C,
that will soon fill it up :-))


 >I found old paste sometimes dries out, beeing not properly "tacky" and not
 >holding the components well.

It will be hand soldered using the method described by some. Put
a continous bead of paste onto the pads, place the chip, solder
two pins on opposite sides and then run the iron tip along the pins
......and hope for the best :-(

 >Do never attempt to dilute it with alcohol or glycerine, you will
 >experience a bad experience ;-9..

Nitroglycerine??? :-)



Regards

John Samperi

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