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"Cold" Solder for heat sensitive parts
Sometime ago I throught I read somewhere about a "cold" solder that was actually some sort of adhesive that had fine conductive power in it. The idea was that this stuff was to be used without any heat at all for making electrical connections. This stuff is not to be confused with "Liquid Solder" which clearly states that it is non-conductive.
Has anyone heard of such a product?
****** UPDATE*****
I did a Google search for "Electrical Conductive Epoxy" and here's some of what I found:
Easy Model Railroad Inventory Bug Fix
Version 3.1 of Easy Model Railroad Inventory is a bug fix in the library section of the program. Most of you will not have noticed but there is always one. While I was at it I added some more reports and changed others as requested.
Version 3.1 03/22/2011
Thanks for all of your support.
Easy Model Railroad Inventory - Potential Addition #1
On another forum I noticed a thread concerning the percentage breakdown of freight cars. The options were:
- Home Road,
- Connecting Lines, and
- Foreign Roads.
Personally this information is of no interest to me. The NPBL was, and is, a bridge between class 1 railroads. So it didn't, doesn't, have any freight cars. But I have learned what matters little to me may mean a lot to someone else.
Ravings of a Madman - subtitled "To become a MMR or not?"
I'm going to start my ravings by apologizing in advance if I offend anyone, especially Master Model Railroaders (MMR). It is not my intent here to bash the MMR program and I know a number of MMR's (we have many in the Piedmont Division of the NMRA).
Why degrade the hobby
Im an asst. leader of a 4 H Model RR club. We teach model RR to kids ages 8 - 18 years. When the kids get to the age 11 - 16 years they stop bringing their stuff to our events. Sometimes they just stop coming out to our events. It also has gotten to the point they don't want to be in the media, unlike kids that play baseball or football & other activities thrive to get notariaty. Anytime That I have talked to other people about the hobby they almost always get excited and say that they have trains or that a relative has them and how much fun or how fond the memories are.
RSS Feed and Podcasts
Can you please work on your RSS feed and naming gconventions of your mp3 files? I can never tell if the podcasts are something I've already listened to or not. Naming them like you do the PDF attachments in the RSS feed, i.e. Year-Month-#.mp3, would go a long way to making the RSS feed more usable. And before some quips in, don't tell me to point to iTunes, I don't use it, I use Google Reader and RSS feeds for all my podcast subscriptions. Also, it seems every time there's an update to the feed, there's "new" items in the feed that are really old items republished.
ISP has moved our ad redirect site to a new server
Just noticed some of the ad links that we have on our model-trains-universe.com ad tracking site (companion to the MRH site) are temporarily broken.
For instance, if you click on the BLMA sponsor logo, you get this URL:
http://www.model-trains-universe.com/cheker/cheker.php?idmk=6
Yet, you may get a not found, server doesn't exist, or URL broken response. If you pull the www. out of the URL ...
Friday Video Fun - Camera car setup
It occured to me that although I've posted videos taken from my camera car, I've never actually shown it and how it's set up. Here's a couple of pictures of the rig:
Easy Model Railroad Inventory Upgrade
Version 3 is now available to download for our site. Some of the changes/fixes are:
Train Room Safety - Don't Forget the Obvious
Sometimes the obvious is overlooked - which is exactly what happened to me. My CO2 detector died upstairs in my home so I purchased a new one at the local "big box" home improvement store. They had a great deal on a combo pack (CO2 detector & smoke alarm) where the two bundled together was $10.00 cheaper than the CO2 detector alone.
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