(19-Nov-2016, 13:20)thumb5 Wrote: You're a brave man, Antoine! I've done quite a bit of soldering in my time but I don't think I'd trust myself with that job. Respect!
Great to hear that it's working now, and will look forward to your listening impressions.
Thank you Ian!
Well I was disappointed so much that I thought that if I would screw it up I would have to send it back and if I did nothing I would also have to send it back. So I just tried. I did my best to relax, take my time and do it very carefully and in the end it proved to be quite easy because of the very wide solder points. I think it's now probably in an even better condition than it is usually from factory and in my case it probably were poor solderings. I can't imagine these to come loose if it wasn't a poor job done. The D, being made out of a solid block of aluminium really can't torque. So the board either was loose from the start or it just needed a bit of a shock during transport to come loose.
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