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For teenage me, during electronics projects the room always smelt of solder fumes, burnt skin, and melted wire insulation. :-)
by jamesfmilne 10y ago
For teenage me, during electronics projects the room always smelt of solder fumes, burnt skin, and melted wire insulation. :-)
- Florin_Andrei 10y agoSo, at some point I learned that you could use an aspirin tablet instead of rosin. It works, kinda, but the fumes are the kind that melts your lungs off. But yeah, there's no "real" soldering without burnt fingertips.
- throwanem 10y agoBurnt fingertips, hell. My second, and so far last, iron burn happened as a result of trying to solder an SD card slot hacked from an old floppy edge connector onto the CPU pins of a WRT54G with an insufficient magnifier that had me leaning way too close to the work. Turns out my nose sticks out further than I'd thought! And the blister stuck out further still. The sort of thing about which my mother might say "that'll learn ya," and it did - I'm much more cautious now.