My takeaways from this experience...
Oddly enough, I didn't realize that the side clip batteries weren't a friction hold... at least mine weren't. The negative through hole piece was at least an eighth of an inch long and it curved back. I had to rock it out with the iron on it.
I forgot that...
Ran across my share of cold solder joints, I expect some of them are from rushing and out of fear.
This is the part where I ramble until I nut up enough to do this.
Moved it over to the jig, is a type C but I anticipated wrong on the type of battery. naturally I am thrilled to make the...
I'm rocking a pretty old battery, I was going to make an attempt tonight to swap it out with the cab turned on.
Any gotchas to watch out for that I may run into after a pass the point of no return? Saw the bit-district jig so I ordered one up, figured I would give it a try.