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Strange Solder Spots on PCB

I was tearing down some old CD drives and while taking a look to the PCB I found two pointy solder spots, connected to the first pin of each side of a chip which makes me think is an EEPROM. There ...
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Questions on mass-production soldering

Wave soldering I am trying to understand how wave soldering works. Unfortunately the Wikipedia article has has left me unsure about the process: Is the entire board with its components quasi-...
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