Soldering Anyone??

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Hey everyone,

Who here is *really* good at soldering? Like crazy mad skills good? I've got a pile of various boards I need to assemble and need some steady hands to accomplish the task.

Unfortunately, I don't have enough of each type of board to warrant having them done on an automated pick/place/wave-solder setup, so I'm stuck hand assembling them. Fun. Well...not really.

Is there anyone here capable and willing to solder up some boards for me? Maybe someone who has a small/medium wave soldering setup of their own who'd be willing to take this on for me? I'm listening!

I'm talking about:

720 Dual Encoder Boards
Hall Effect Sensor Boards
Tempest/Spinner Encoder Boards
Missile Command Encoder Boards
Roadblasters Encoder Boards
Major Havoc/Tempest Conversion Boards
Major Havoc/SpaceDuel Gravitar Blackwidow Conversion Boards
Amplifone HV Boards
Amplifone Deflection Boards
WG6100 HV Boards
WG6100 Delfection Boards

Maybe 50-100 of each for starters.

I prefer someone local (SoCal), but I will consider just about anything at this point. I need to take this specific task off of MY plate so I can focus on other things that need my attention.

That reminds me, if you're not already on my KLOV friends list, send me a request right now so I can add you. :)

I'm willing to pay in cash or TRADE reproduction parts in exchange. I don't really care, just as long as I can get some quality assembled parts completed ASAP. Obviously, some of this stuff would be awesome to have on-hand and ready to ship right NOW!! I know people have been asking about some of them, so I'm eager to get some built up and put into stock.

Thanks for looking.
 
You're talking at least 600 boards? That's a lot of soldering. I mean, I might have offered to help out with a couple, but I think doing that many would give me cancer and lead poisoning for sure. Although, for sensor boards, and encoder boards, you're talking spinner/joysticks, right (small ~1x2" boards)? I may be able to give you a hand with a few if you felt like coming down to long beach. Make a night of it or something. I don't have a bulk solder machine though, just a hakko variable, and a hakko desoldering gun.
 
May I suggest a few things?
First of all, just like your under wear was inspected by (inspector 15) each of your boards should be also sticker ed/stamped by who did the work. If you're going to offer payroll then you need to protect yourself especially when whoring out the work load. Said lovingly of course.

Considered having solder/builders actually do the shipping? to me it makes better sense to have the builder ship instead. Yes it opens a door to a possible whole nuther problem (will they not ship in a timely manner) but face it, costs you to have the part shipped, then you pay to ship it to me, then you pay to have it shipped back and then there's more shipping to get it to the buyer. Poses another question. Are you planning on putting people on your payroll as RC employees for tax purposes? If you doing payroll simply request persons use USPS or UPS and send you the receipts every week. Business expense reimbursement ;) Who doesn't love tax write offs?

alright i gotta hit the road home. Peace and nice job daviea!
 
I'm happy to work with people on this, but ultimately, everything has to pass through MY QC. I need to eyeball each and every piece which is a bummer, but I really need to ensure that the quality aspect is always under my thumb. I can so deal with complaints about being slow because... well, it's the truth...but it's something that I'm trying to fix. I could never deal with people complaining about my quality which is one reason I'm so anal-retentive about it. Maybe too much, but there you have it. LOL

I'm still talking to a couple of local assembly shops...some of the smaller ones seem somewhat moved to at least consider my short runs of boards. But, I'm really wanting them to put the boards up on the automated setup so I can get consistent build quality from one part to the next.

In the meantime, I'm still taking down names just in case plan A doesn't pan out.

Thanks guys.
 
You're talking at least 600 boards? That's a lot of soldering. I mean, I might have offered to help out with a couple, but I think doing that many would give me cancer and lead poisoning for sure.

L M F A O O M F G B B Q !!!

Now that is funny shit! I have been laughing for like three minutes straight! Man I needed that today!

Tom
 
This has riptors name all over it...

That is if he can find the time!
 
L M F A O O M F G B B Q !!!

Now that is funny shit! I have been laughing for like three minutes straight! Man I needed that today!

Tom

Hehe. I was laughing about that too - of course I heard it as "You cost me my one chance! I got freaking diabetes and cancer because of you!"

-Ian
 
Hehe. I was laughing about that too - of course I heard it as "You cost me my one chance! I got freaking diabetes and cancer because of you!"

-Ian

Eh? I must have missed something. I just posted that since I don't have an exhaust hood for my soldering area yet... Fumes are carcinogenic and all.
 
Eh? I must have missed something. I just posted that since I don't have an exhaust hood for my soldering area yet... Fumes are carcinogenic and all.

Nobody has an exhaust hood for their soldering area. I think you're over-reacting :D

That quote I posted was from a cartoon. Your post made me think of it.

-Ian
 
Nobody has an exhaust hood for their soldering area. I think you're over-reacting :D

That quote I posted was from a cartoon. Your post made me think of it.

-Ian

I've seen some people with a little hood setup. Mostly, it's just a fan with a filter on it, but it looks like it would be helpful. When I finish re-framing my storage rooms, I plan to build a desk at one end with a vent fan that vents outside. Pretty much going to mimic the setup they have at the welding area of my work, but with a lower power fan.

Here's the one I've seen before.
 
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I have access to three different wave solder machines. Two leaded and one lead free. I work on them and program profiles for them. I also have access to and program a selective solder machine which we use for hybrid boards (SMT and through hole). That's really what you need, hand soldering that many boards would take forever.

Oh, and did I mention I am interested in A MH/Tempest conversion board and a MH spinner :D
 
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Now THAT's what I'm talking about!

We need to speak. Soon. :)


I have access to three different wave solder machines. Two leaded and one lead free. I work on them and program profiles for them. I also have access to and program a selective solder machine which we use for hybrid boards (SMT and through hole). That's really what you need, hand soldering that many boards would take forever.

Oh, and did I mention I am interested in A MH/Tempest conversion board and a MH spinner :D
 
I practice the miyagi soldering technique:

Breath in! (set part and apply heat)

Breath out! ( apply solder and blow away fumes)

When I saw 50 boards, I was thinking "Hey, I could do that". Then the reality hit me and I thought the same thing. That's alot of work!
 
That's really what you need, hand soldering that many boards would take forever.

Pfft... those boards are tiny and hardly have any components.
Try doing 100 sets of pacman daughterboards in a weekend.

I don't mind soldring (on the granite coffee table, in front of the big TV), but I hardly expect this gig to pay enough to be worth the headache...
 
Pfft... those boards are tiny and hardly have any components.
Try doing 100 sets of pacman daughterboards in a weekend.

I don't mind soldring (on the granite coffee table, in front of the big TV), but I hardly expect this gig to pay enough to be worth the headache...

Well, I can do them down to as small as 1" if necessary. I can also run them through the SMT line and reflow oven if needed (if they're SMT). Infact, as far as the parts are concerned. I could program them to run in the axial lead inserter or DIP machine. Granted, we usually run tiny boards in a panelized format but, I can work around that.
 
I practice the miyagi soldering technique:

Breath in! (set part and apply heat)

Breath out! ( apply solder and blow away fumes)

When I saw 50 boards, I was thinking "Hey, I could do that". Then the reality hit me and I thought the same thing. That's alot of work!

He said 50-100 of each in his first thread, and at 11 boards listed... that's at least 550 boards. So, yup...
 
If you get in a jam give me a shout and I will help out. This is something I could do on a slow night at work. I cleaned and erased 800 eproms last night at work :)
Anyways, dont think you should pay me for it but we could work out a trade deal on some parts.
I will be out of town tomorrow afternoon until saturday evening so I wont be on the computer much. Send me a PM and I will get back with you.
 
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