A journal of two SE/30s

[jonathanjo]

I was intending to follow the heat shield technique Bruce Wayne's video shows:



Has someone got a video of "the push and twist method"?

 

[croissantking]

Apparently when they renovate cathedrals, there's a convention to leave modern gargoyles. Which is why there's an astronaut and a demon eating ice cream (three scoops) on the "new" (1533-) cathedral at Salamanca. Some contratantalistas broke the astronaut's arm, but the ice cream was undamaged.

I showed this to my Spanish friend and we couldn’t find a definition for the word contratantalista. Is it very colloquial?

 

[jonathanjo]

we couldn’t find a definition for the word contratantalista. Is it very colloquial?

I made it up as a light-hearted word for an antiprogresista (ant-progressive), in the context of someone who doesn't want astronauts in their cathedrals nor tantalum caps on their 1980s computers: someone who is against (contra-) tantalum (tántalo) people (-ista).

But it probably should have been antitantalista, enemies of the reactionary forces of the proaluministas.

While there are real Spanish words such as contraterrorista (counter-terrorist agent), but it seems for a person-against-X the usual form is antimonopolista and antibonapartista (antimonopolist, anti-Bonapartist.)

Those who have studied the capacitor production in Lilliput and Blefuscu, almost exactly equal in output, discovered an ancient map showing the long history of this division of the industries. As reproduced in Swift, J., 1726, Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.

 

[SpocksBeer]

I was intending to follow the heat shield technique Bruce Wayne's video shows:

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Has someone got a video of "the push and twist method"?

Check Adrian's Digital Basement videos, eg this one from about 6 minutes in.

Actually he's way more...er...vigorous than I would be, but you can see the board takes it fine.

I respect Bruce's work immensely, but I've never been able to replicate it with my equipment. Plus I think there's a downside to his method or technique, which is stray blobs of solder ending up blown across the board.

 

[jonathanjo]

Thanks @SpocksBeer. Now I'm confused!

Bruce: Don't twist, you're rip the pads off.
Adrian: Don't heat, you'll melt everything nearby.
Me: Hmmm.