Actually, I crossed over to the "dark side" on this one. I was initially
very skeptical about using crimping, but after doing some research I
decided to give it a try. The airplane has been flying since 2004 and I
have not had any issues with crimps.
Just as an aside, a long time I ago I did a class called high reliability
soldering. One of the exercises we did was to cut a cross section of
various solder joints and examine them under a metallurgy microscope. It
was quite surprising the number of joints that looked okay were in actual
fact crystalline.
Paul
> On 06/05/2012 11:46 PM, Raimo Toivio wrote:
>
> > Do agree. I have soldered all the possible joints. They will last
> forever.
>
> Same here. I soldered almost everything. Using proper materials and
> operation there is nothing wrong with soldering.
> The only caveat is that you MUST protect solder joints from movements.
> Judicious use of tie-wraps is the key. ;-)
>
> All the internal parts of avionics are soldered as well. I still need to
> see the first GPS units where the internal parts are crimped rather than
> soldered. :-D
>
> Frans
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