Sparkfun in the United States also sells off large bags of their discards for this very purpose - generally sorted by the type of work you wish to practice. http://www.sparkfun.com/.
This is where I went wrong. I got a lot of great stuff and jumped right in on it. Fortunately we're not talking an AD9458 here but I did torch some things that were inconvenient. On a similar tack, I did just order a couple of reflow controllers for your average toaster oven to test. Will share the results here if desired. NS On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 7:42 PM, Chris Albertson <albertson.ch...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 6:39 PM, Bob Camp <kb...@n1k.org> wrote: > > > Hi > > > > Tools are one thing that makes it happen. Practice is another thing that > > we often forget about being in the mix. Start slow and simple. > > > The best and certainly lowest cost practice can be on old, dead consumer > electronics. Got a dead pc mother board? Practice removing a ew parts and > re-soldering them. They are easy to remove using a heat gun, the hot air > will melt the solder and then you have hundreds of zero cost practice > parts. > > -- > > Chris Albertson > Redondo Beach, California > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.