On Tue, 15 Nov 2016 13:22:39 +0000, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

In article ,
John Rumm wrote:
I had to laugh:

http://www.rutlands.co.uk/pp+christm...S?promo=DK7118

That ain't gonna work ;-)

(even if you ignore the cap in the space silk screened for Q1!)

Brilliant. ;-)

But the very idea of using a gas flame type iron on a PCB fills me with
horror. Perhaps for an emergency repair in the field - but to build a
project as in that pic?

That, and how did they get a TO220 into a TO92 set of holes and soldering
the wrong side of the PCB - who ever is it who creates this stuff

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