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Hmmm... It's not a dry climate here in Montreal at all, and I have no carpeting, but that certainly sounds like my problem.

I was using a 35w Weller and my only complaint was that the tip seems *enormous* for pcb work, but its possible that I could have fried it.

I guess I could swap the vactrol for 3 with the vactrol for one of the others and see what happens. To the workshop I go!

Thanks to all for the info - I don't feel as inept now. :)

On 28-Oct-05, at 8:52 PM, Adam Schabtach wrote:

I killed vactrol #3 when I built my second 410, and I was using a

temp-control Weller station at the time. Paul told me that the things can

sometimes be damaged by static electricity. I assembled mine in a very dry

climate in a room with a carpeted floor, so draw your own conclusions. :-)

The symptom in that case was that filter #3 passed audio only very faintly.

I was having a run of bad luck then, I think. I assembled my third 300 VCO

at around the same time, and I managed to wire its output jacks wrong. These

mistakes were made after I'd assembled ~25 MOTM kits over the past few years

with zero problems.

--Adam

-----Original Message-----

From: groovyshaman [mailto:groovyshaman@snet.net]

Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 6:43 PM

To: motm@yahoogroups.com; Mike Marsh

Subject: Re: [motm] Re: To those that have built a '410....

A vactrol was my problem back when I built my 410. I held the iron to a

leg

for too long and killed it. I promptly tossed the iron and went out and

bought a Weller WSD80 station. :)

-George

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