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In Reply to: Be Gone Old Solder Joints and Sockets! posted by Jonesy on August 5, 2015 at 12:41:23:
Nice looking work, but you need to know that through-board eyelets can cause a helluva lot of grief. This construction technique was responsible for thousands of failures of Akai reel-to-reel decks during the early '70s, and very few audio manufacturers used it after that. The problem is that the eyelets don't expand/contract over temperature at the same rate as the rest of the materials (including the solder). Eventually, the solder cracks in a circumference around the eyelet, causing opens and intermittents. The only solution I know is to run a thin piece of buss wire through every eyelet, bend it over on both sides of the board and solder it to the traces. That permanently connects the solder within the eyelet to the traces of the board.
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