Homebrew PCBs

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Rick C." <rixy@V...> wrote:
> I explain this procedure on my website:
> http://www.pic101.com/pcb/thru.htm
> Rick

As a technician, I can tell you that those rivets are indeed a
terrible source of problems. They expand and contract and cause cracks
in the solder, and when resoldering they must be completely sucked out
and carefully resoldered so there are -no- bubbles. If even one bubble
pops out, it makes a cold solder joint and must be redone.

And it's almost impossible many times to find the cracks in the solder
around them by visual inspection.

Steve