And Dell managed to get on my nerves today...

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Originally Posted by Volt

Hehe - a 5 line sentance with a lot of IFs. I agree, not overly diificult, but I would still say not for the average person who has never done proper soldering. 50 caps = 100 joints with proper tinning, no cold joints, no slop, burning up the run, or getting the polarity backwards. Not to include gettin the right cap in the right spot..... I'm still betting a years worth of sticks against an untrained individual getting it right the first time if at all.

1 years worth of cigars = all the Creamosas you can smoke.

You changed your bet

And I will agree that an untrained individual might not be able to do it. But technically I'm untrained aside from an intro class in college that pretty much just said don't burn your @&^# fingers .

I've just had a LOT of experience since then though. To me it's easy. The other day I had to solder a 64 pin TQFP microcontroller to a PCB. That's about what I'd consider moderate difficulty