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A customer in Austin told me my flux looked like a crime scene
He pointed at a board I fixed and said I was using way too much, leaving big blobs that could cause shorts. I switched to a needle bottle and now I use about half as much, just a tiny dot on each joint. Has anyone else had a client call them out on messy flux work?
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angela_knight8d ago
My early boards looked like a glitter bomb went off. A friend finally told me my flux use was "enthusiastic" which was code for a huge mess. What's the worst critique you've gotten on your work?
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eric_carr8d ago
I read a forum post where someone called a guy's solder joints "cold and sad looking." I mean, that's just brutal, right? It stuck with me because it's so weirdly personal. Like, you're not just saying the connection is bad, you're saying it has bad feelings. Idk, maybe it's just me but that critique felt harsher than any technical term. At least "enthusiastic flux" sounds kind of fun.
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