NASA Hardware Techniques: Soldering Space Electronics Like It’s 1958
upstart writes:
NASA Hardware Techniques: Soldering Space Electronics Like It's 1958:
PeriscopeFilm on YouTube has many old TV adverts and US government reels archived on their channel, with some really interesting subjects to dive in to. This first one we're highlighting here is a 1958 film about NASA Soldering Techniques (Video, embedded below), which has some fascinating details about how things were done during the Space Race, and presumably, continue to be done. The overall message about cleanliness couldn't really be any clearer if they tried - it's so critical it looks like those chaps in the film spend far more time brushing and cleaning than actually wielding those super clean soldering irons.
[...] As you would expect (and it's not exactly a big secret) NASA has some very exacting standards for assembly of all hardware, like this great workmanship standard, which is well worth studying. Soldering is an important subject for many of us, we've covered the subject of solder metallurgy, as well as looking at how ancient hardware hackers soldered without the benefit of much modern knowledge.
I'm not sure my first Heathkit project would have passed NASA standards.
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