18 Feb
2010
18 Feb
'10
6:04 p.m.
On 18 Feb 2010 at 9:46, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
Soldering now is far safer than it used to be. I can still recall
the glorious sensation of picking up an American Beauty 100W
soldering iron by the wrong end.
I suppose that we should be thankful that we don't use an
oxyacetylene torch for PCB work...
--Chuck
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).
Excellently put.