18 Feb
2010
18 Feb
'10
5:46 p.m.
What I don;t
get is _why_ there's this aversion to soldering.
I get it. Fumes requiring ventilation, molten metal,
temperatures that can sear flesh or melt most plastics, the
appearance if not fact of irreversability (and in fact, it's not hard
to do damage to the circuit board that is hard to repair). Like
bicycling, cooking, and a host of other activities, it's a very
productive and useful skill to have, and seems to those who have the
skill to be trivial to learn - but to those without the skill, it's
intimidating (partly because there is some potential for damage if
it's done wrong).