from the so-tonight-I'm-gonna-solder-like-it's-1959 dept.
NASA Hardware Techniques: Soldering Space Electronics Like It’s 1958:
PeriscopeFilm on YouTube has many old TV adverts and US government reels archived on their channel, with some really interesting subjects to dive in to. This first one we’re highlighting here is a 1958 film about NASA Soldering Techniques (Video, embedded below), which has some fascinating details about how things were done during the Space Race, and presumably, continue to be done. The overall message about cleanliness couldn’t really be any clearer if they tried — it’s so critical it looks like those chaps in the film spend far more time brushing and cleaning than actually wielding those super clean soldering irons.
[...] As you would expect (and it’s not exactly a big secret) NASA has some very exacting standards for assembly of all hardware, like this great workmanship standard, which is well worth studying. Soldering is an important subject for many of us, we’ve covered the subject of solder metallurgy, as well as looking at how ancient hardware hackers soldered without the benefit of much modern knowledge.
I'm not sure my first Heathkit project would have passed NASA standards.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 16 2022, @04:41AM (9 children)
They use the occult symbol of the triangle for /\ just like most occult companies do on their products. It's all over the place.
(Score: 2, Touché) by khallow on Saturday April 16 2022, @04:54AM (8 children)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 16 2022, @05:06AM (7 children)
That would actually have been funny were it not for the occultist gatekeeping.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday April 16 2022, @05:18AM (6 children)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 16 2022, @07:43AM
The Venn diagram of people who know space physics instrumentation and those who believe in occult symbolism.... is vanishing.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 16 2022, @05:16PM (4 children)
From the end of the last apollo mission (17) to Monday April '18' is 18,018 days..
The initials for trump's head of the CDC was R.R.R.
Like they are laughing at you.. R, R, R..
R is the 18th letter..
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday April 16 2022, @05:52PM
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday April 16 2022, @05:59PM (2 children)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 16 2022, @07:25PM (1 child)
18th timezone..
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday April 17 2022, @05:37AM
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by driverless on Saturday April 16 2022, @10:07AM (4 children)
Since it's spelled "soldering", why do people from the US pronounce it "soddering"? Watching that NASA video of two guys busy soddering I almost thought it was going to be something from Pornhub.
(Score: 2, Funny) by khallow on Saturday April 16 2022, @02:41PM
(Score: 3, Interesting) by RamiK on Saturday April 16 2022, @04:03PM
You're not the first one to wonder: https://languagehat.com/solder/ [languagehat.com]
Maybe it has something to do with how back-vowels before [L] in American English are merging ( https://www.acelinguist.com/2022/02/pre-l-back-vowel-madness.html [acelinguist.com] ) so to prevent a shift the [L] had to go?
Reference:
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(Score: 2) by RedGreen on Saturday April 16 2022, @08:58PM
"Since it's spelled "soldering", why do people from the US pronounce it "soddering"?"
Since it is spelled "Arkansas" why do they pronounce it "rkansaw" instead of "rkansas" like the other State is pronounced. Americans do it all the time, even worse listen to an Australian some time, they butcher the English language even more than the Yanks do.
"I modded down, down, down, and the flames went higher." -- Sven Olsen
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 17 2022, @07:01PM
-nomsg
(Score: 3, Interesting) by janrinok on Saturday April 16 2022, @10:34AM (2 children)
My first shortwave radio kit from Heathkit was a GR-64 which contained 2 or 3 valves (tubes for our US cousins) and covered 1.8MHz to 30Mhz. My soldering was significantly worse than that expected of the technicians in the video. The only saving grace was that it actually worked!
I wonder if Heathkit deserve a story all of their own?
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 16 2022, @11:41AM
Later solid state crap...
Soldering flux does not mix well with high freq circuits... I had to use brake cleaner (good stuff for electronics) to clean the flux runoff from the board.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by zafiro17 on Saturday April 16 2022, @02:32PM
Fond memories of poring over the Heathkit catalog, wishing I could launch into some of those adventurous projects. There is some kind of an equivalent in the Arduino projects and similar, but it's more complex and a bigger investment, so still somewhat different. I did give a try at a Heathkit radio once, and didn't do very well at it, realizing small electronics were probably not going to be my forte.
Still, happy memories of a bygone age.
Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis - Jack Handey
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 16 2022, @11:15AM (4 children)
A pity that the video has been watermarked excessively for the Professional Youtuber's profiteering off of public domain material, and of no use to anyone else in the future.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Immerman on Saturday April 16 2022, @02:11PM (3 children)
It's hardly useless - the watermarks don't really interfere much with the informational content so you can still use it for the original purpose just fine, you just can't legally redistribute it.
And since it is public domain you're free to track down a copy of the original film yourself, buy the equipment necessary to convert it to digital format, and upload the result as public domain without any watermarking, etc.
I'm not super happy that people are able to claim a normal copyright for format-shifting PD material, but I'm willing to concede that without that incentive a whole lot of old material would likely never have been converted to modern formats and been lost to time, which would be an even worse tragedy.
If copyright was still only 14 years it wouldn't even bother me that much.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 16 2022, @05:19PM
Do you enjoy 'watermarking' of trains and bridges too?
- EOL -
(Score: 2) by corey on Sunday April 17 2022, @02:23AM (1 child)
Isn’t anything uploaded to YouTube owned by Google anyway?
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Sunday April 17 2022, @03:16AM
I doubt it - none of the multi-platform commercial videos could do their thing if they did, and you can bet there wouldn't be official trailers clips from various movies, etc. uploaded under those terms. Though I suppose special treatment for publishers is always a possibility.
You'd have to read through the terms of service to be sure, but while some platforms claim copyright for uploaded content, that tends to generate a whole lot of backlash. So usually uploading grants them a distribution license, which they usually seem to push as close to "we can do literally anything we want with it" as they can without generating too much bad publicity.