In a message dated 04/10/2001 11:08:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
tscales@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> You see, I finally decided to spend an evening soldering.....
>
> I have the 1/3 AA Sanyos, a torn apart Control Pack 1, a low wattage
> soldering iron, some small guage copper wire and some solder.
>
> Sounds easy.
>
> It's not.
>
> The tabs on the batteries will NOT solder. No matter what. No way. No how.
>
> What am I doing wrong? I'm clueless at this; haven't soldered in 25 years.
> Wasn't much good then either.
>
> I'm hesitant to heat up the tabs too much, for fear of damaging the
> batteries (which I might have already done). I'm trying to solder together
> the batteries in the wierd 5/6/1 pattern that is required and the solder
> joint keeps breaking...and breaking...and breaking.
>
> My wife is tired of my liberal profanities.
>
> I've made progress and can probably stumble my way through it, but is there
> a magic formula I am missing?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Tom
> the inept solderer.
>
>
>
Tom, Your scaring me! ( Do I want to try this ? )
Scott
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