it's hard to really compare the approaches using pictures. Do you have schematics? Also, note that Sony will have less integration to do, then say dCS, which goes against my argument a bit I suppose. I think if we had some schematics, we could better discuss this.
Jim, do you have some Calvados? I absolutely love the stuff. I'd heartedly recommend the Widow's Kiss. I'd love to also try it with the yellow Chartreuse. If you need a good one, the one I have is the Maison Surrenne petite of Calvadoses IMHO.
The Widow's Kiss
1.5 oz calvados
0.75 oz Green Chartreuse
0.75 oz Benedictine
2 dashes Angostura
Shake and garnish with a cherry. Chartreuse flask FTW!
The Georgia Mint Julep
Fresh mint leaves
1 tsp sugar (2 sugar cubes)
Dash of water
2 oz cognac
1 oz peach brandy
Muddle the water, sugar and some mint leaves. Add spirits and crushed ice. Stir like you are stirring shit up at Head-Fi. Add leaves to glass and transfer mixture.
One of those drinks / punches that has to "integrate" for 3 days. Recipe when I drink it. The rum on the right was used in the drink as well as used to store the result.
The only complaint about the absolute strap I have is that when my Tri-Star is fully loaded and I hang it on the smaller pointy hooks on the back of stall doors (ie airports) it makes marks in the rubber and stretches it to the point that it looks like it will rip.
I always assumed they were called reflow because of this:
I do wonder what a ST300 would go for used though.... here's one for example:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Pace-ST-300-Rework-Station-/330482865166?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4cf250540e#ht_1747wt_907
I use a few different ones at the office. I prefer the Pace machines, but they might be a bit expensive. If you design a board with top side components only, the DIY methods using stencils work fine. I honestly only use the hot air station for messing with the secure packages and BGAs and maybe the odd SRAM module.
Oh and assuming this is to streamline small production runs, what about looking into an assembly service?
Just had another. Great drink. Got stuck with an insane bill just now though I got to compare the Lillet and Cocchi in the Vesper there and prefer the Lillet in fact. More agricole base drinks and I really love the stuff.
Ha, look what I found:
http://www.westinstfrancis.com/clock_bar/documents/CLOCKBAR_002.pdf
http://www.westinstfrancis.com/clock_bar/documents/ClockBarBook2609_2__000.pdf
http://www.westinstfrancis.com/clock_bar/documents/PhilosophyPage.pdf
Ok. Just remembered, Jim:
2 oz Rittenhouse 100
0.75 oz punt e mrs
0.5 oz green chartreuse
2 dashes Fees orange bitters
The two middle proportions could be swapped...
Fucking iPhone no pics...
So I lost the receipe.
I fail.
It had Rittenhouse 100 and Fee orange bitters. No maraschino. I think it was yellow chartreuse. There might have been an other ingredient but it wasn't noteworthy........ I'll try an d go back. Funny story though, I totally crashed a Wired mag party and all my drinks were free. More when I'm sober...
I will say this. I had a Rhum Agricole with some All Spice Dram and it was fantastic. It was a punch.
I would recommend the Last Word with the Laphroig instead of gin. Very impressive. I'd call it the "baseball mitt"
Ok. Back to more drinks. I think I'll tey and steal the menu fro the Clock Bar. More later.
I think the yellow is more sweet and mild. I think it might work better in many drinks than the green in fact.
No not p2p. I did a balanced Pre rexntly. Just do the heaters with pads right next to the so sockets. Just keel the traces odd the pcb and use twists wire there.