Pace made a "fused eyelet setter" .
This was an eyelet staking tool that ran high current, low voltage through the eyelet after the eyelet was staked and while the eyelet was still under compression.
This fused the flared part of the eyelet to the lands.
Motorola used eyeletted boards in some of their two way radios.
This was the major source of failure as the eyelet solder connection broke free of the lands.
The fix for this was to resolder all of the eyeletted connections on both the top and bottom of the board.
One source of PCB repair things is
Glenn
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On 6/15/2018 10:28 PM, lop pol via Groups.Io wrote:
I would like to affordably put together the things needed to repair plated through holes. Anyone have any thoughts? I'm asking because I dont want to buy this more than onct setter"e. My pocket has not much room for mistakes right now and i seem to do a lot better asking here before buying. Thanks guys
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