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Article #276Re: Win32/RAMNIT.A Anyone?
From: Dustin
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 20:25
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 20:25
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Steve Fenwick <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote in news:nospam-9B8B6B.09575203082010@62-183-169-81.bb.dnainternet.fi: > In article <Xns9DC91AB3EABD0HHI2948AJD832@69.16.185.247>, > Dustin <bughunter.dustin@gmail.com> wrote: > >> John Slade <hhitman86@pacbell.net> wrote in >> news:i37va2$e0f$1@news.eternal-september.org: > >> > I got my start in electronics and have a background in >> > that too. I took college courses in electronics and am no >> > stranger to repairing circuit boards. I'm no stranger to >> > soldering irons. Well that's what we called them. I used to >> > repair TVs, radios and such years ago. >> >> Odd. I'm familiar with soldering irons as well as pencils, and we >> typically use the pencils for detail work that the iron generates >> too much heat for. Irons aren't good for changing out small >> transistors, IC's or caps due to the risk of damage, and especially >> these days with a pile of components nearby the one that has to be >> replaced; a pencil is the only way to safely do it. Lower wattage, >> less heat. >> > > It might be a regionalism, or a Britishism/Americanism. In over 20 > years I've never used, or heard used, "soldering pencil" in a lab in > the U.S., although I am familiar with the term. It's always been > "soldering iron", whether a giant thing to solder heavy cables, or a > tool suited to tiny ICs and SMT parts. Metcals are generally the > best I've seen for small devices; they put a high temperature > (typically 600 to 700F) into a very very small area very quickly > (80W output). > > Steve > 80watts output would burn an IC up on a wave soldered board... -- "I like your Christ. I don't like your Christians. They are so unlike your Christ." - author unknown.
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Subject: Re: Win32/RAMNIT.A Anyone?
From: Dustin <bughunter.dustin@gmail.com>
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