On Sun, 24 May 2009 16:54:32 +0100, "Arfa Daily"
wrote:

Arrrggghhh !! Dontcha just hate trying to unsolder and remove components
with bent-over legs ... ? Very true though that you should have a good
mechanical joint first.

The first transistor radio (and television) pcbs were designed so that, wherever
possible, a component wire hole was /not/ in a piece of copper. This meant that
all leads had to be bent over at right angles to meet the correct piece of
copper. The great advantage of this was the ease of temporaily disconnecting a
component for test/repair. Of course this was before auto-insertion made all the
girls redundant...
(quips here)

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Geo