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  1. Newsgroups: alt.radio.scanner
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!news.mentorg.com!mentorg.com!philip
  3. From: philip@mentorg.com (Philip Peake)
  4. Subject: Re: New BC200XLT Mod, anybody tried it yet?
  5. Sender: news@news.mentorg.com (News User)
  6. Message-ID: <1992Nov16.213353.24663@news.mentorg.com>
  7. Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 21:33:53 GMT
  8. References: <1992Nov12.160600.7338@ms.uky.edu>  <1689F19C.WALLY@UKCC.UKY.EDU>
  9. Nntp-Posting-Host: sun_shine.mentorg.com
  10. Organization: Mentor Graphics
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  15. In article <1689F19C.WALLY@UKCC.UKY.EDU>, WALLY@UKCC.UKY.EDU writes:
  16. |> In article <1992Nov13.174455.4579@news.mentorg.com>
  17. |> philip@mentorg.com (Philip Peake) writes:
  18. |>  
  19. |> >inside the case with a bit of tape, so that you can replace it if you
  20. |>                                                      ^^^^^^^
  21. |>  
  22. |> Hate to tell you, but surface mount components are _very_ easily
  23. |> destroyed by normal soldering...  Of course, you can replace it with
  24. |> a larger (colour coded, non-surface mount, etc..) resister if need
  25. |> be.. :)
  26.  
  27. You omitted the part where I said "carefully" (at least I
  28. think that was the word that I used.
  29.  
  30. Yes, you *can* easily damage the components, but they don't
  31. automatically die just at tyhe sight of a soldering iron ...
  32.  
  33. Philip
  34.