28 May
2009
28 May
'09
9:17 p.m.
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 11:54 PM, David Griffith <dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu> wrote:
On Thu, 28 May 2009, Ethan Dicks wrote:
I was a kid and nobody really showed me how to solder, so I had to
learn the hard way. Fortunately, the job I got at 18 involved
soldering 6-layer boards (adding ECO components and wires), and I got
really good, really fast. Graduating from a cheap iron to a Weller
EC-2000 was no small part of it. Having someone take the time to show
me a few tips was another.
Now, I know I could do a half-way decent job with a crappy iron, but
cheap tools can only do so much.
-ethan
I still have a couple of projects I assembled in
the late 1970s as a
teen... I used a cheap RatShack pencil iron - they _do_ look like they
were assembled with a hot brick. ?One is a TVT 6-5/8. ?I keep meaning
to clean that one up but haven't found the time to do it.
Weird. ?I've always been complimented on my soldering, even though I've
always used a Ratshack Special.