1st Crack at PCB Soldering

Some boards are just crap quality, as well. I never did much intense bench work. When I worked for Motorola, we had to modify a bunch of (used) radio boards for a special purpose. These were on FM receiver modules used in what is called a "voted" system. Anyhow, there were several changes that needed to be made and I was marching right through them, but there were a couple of boards, that I simply just lifted those pads right off!!!!. I was flat amazed. "Whut I do?" I'm thinkin. These were simply "crap" boards.