You would think it would make me feel better to know that every person has intrusive thoughts. But it doesn't at all, quite the opposite.
Yall are as crazy as I am, we are doomed.
I hope you step into a tub of Legos.
I hope you stub your little toe twice today.
May you only roll Natural Ones for your initiative.
May every cat you try to pet run away in fear.
Oh this hurts physically. So much frustration when soldering with the small wires. So much wasted solder to save your fingers from burning.
Thanks. I hate it.
If your fingers are burning from soldering, you're doing it wrong.
From feeding tiny bits of solder. Not from soldering.
I prefer grabbing small amounts of solder with the tip of the soldering iron instead. Helps a lot when solderling small stuff, esp. smd components
I prefer adding solder while soldering. The solder itself also holds flux, and often when you do it that way you don't need to add flux yourself. Also if you solder through hole and you add solder to the tip before soldering all the flux dissappears, and you don't have enough solder for the weld.
And small amounts of solder doesn't mean short strips, which is what you get when you do what OP posted.
Source: I work in the circuit board population field. And do inspection and repairs.
I just hold the whole roll with a bit rolled out straight in one hand, and the iron in the other. I think I might be doing it wrong lol.
What do y'all expect?! I taught myself how to solder because my pokemon yellow cart died!
I do that too lol
I can’t picture what you’re talking about at all with regards to how you burn yourself. I’ve been soldering small wires and components (RC car hobbyist) for years and never burned myself.
I've been soldering CNC machines and such, all I do is I wear a left hand welding glove. I can literally solder on my finger, or hold the wire right next to it. Probably a stupid thing to do, but well - I'm self learned :d
This is clever and I’m stealing it. Reckon those gloves could handle an oxy acetylene torch?
For sometime, yeah. Probably measured in miliseconds :D
Imagine the last part of the solder wire. Not much is left, but you want to use as much as you can, so you feed it anyway even though that last little part makes your finger come dangerously close to the iron.
Usually you just scrap the last part, but OP made a lot of small wires all along the roll, so either you scrap a lot, or burn your fingers trying to use up as much as you can.
Gotcha.
I’d use tweezers to feed it in that case lol.
Good thinking. In my field we don't do that. It takes more effort than you'd get out of it by that point. I just get a new roll. But if you're in a pinch and on your last roll, this is a great idea!
It really depends on whether it's soldering of SMD or THT components: it's a lot nicer to just feed the solder when doing through hole pins until it's just the right amount for that pin and as you pointed out the flux is in the solder, but if you're manually soldering SMD components with their tiny 0.5 mm legs or smaller, a tiny bit of solder on the tip of the iron is enough for 3 or 4 legs and the soldering wire (even the .3mm stuff) just gets in the way and even makes it much more likely to get solder bridges.
Mind you, I don't think SMD components are soldered in professional production settings since it's way simpler to just use a pick and place machine and a soldering oven, so it probably only matters for hobbyists.
To be fair, neither are typically hand soldered in profesional environments anymore (outside of rework). Surface mount stuff gets paste and sent through a reflow oven. Through hole stuff gets wave soldered or sent through a selective solder machine. The only thing I can think of that needs to be hand soldered anymore are batteries because sending a lithium ion battery through a reflow oven or over a pot of molten metal is a bad idea.
Also, fun side fact, lithium ion batteries also explode if you stick then in antistatic bags. I'll let you imagine how our inventory people discovered that.
Yeah, for smt I just use a heat gun or rework station for repairs. Only part I use an iron for that is when a lead didn't take. Even then, the solder is already there so just flux is enough.
hmmm
Is that pic from alamy ? I can't tell
Probably stolen and rebranded. Was the first hit on ddg.
No i was talking about how much the image is logo'd on
I have that same soldering pen. Apparently I've been holding it wrong for years. I'm such an amateur.
🤮
Thanks. In 10 years of soldering, never once had I had this thought. Now I can't unseen it! Damm
Just give in, do it to one spool, and you can move on with your life. Resistance only makes it hurt more.
That depends on the current and voltage
Back in the day I was told:
The volts give you the jolts
But the amps give you the cramps
The volts jolts, the mills kill.
No need for great resistance: all it takes is for a person to have a large capacity to stop being induced by such messages into doing such acts.
At worse you just get stuck in a loop of "should I do it or should I not do it".
I see what you did there.
Painful resistance makes it that much more sweet when you finally succumb.
Well, facebook shorts have plenty of people doing exactly this in their "amazing crafts" videos where a dude usually does something extremely stupid and hazardous. I eyeroll when one pops up now
I was going to say it might be junk solder, but the brand looks well reviewed. Maybe counterfeit? I just had to deal with a kid's first soldering kit containing "solder" with no listed alloy percentages. Couldn't solder worth a damn.
I've always wanted to do this...
Was it satisfying? How did it feel? Don't be shy about details.
I'm... err... asking for friend.
This is what i've been doing as a kid.
I sometimes have my rosin and solder paste in similiar containers next to each other. It happens everytime that I want to accidentally dip my soldering iron into the solder paste
Last time I dipped my soldering iron into the solder paste I ended up with an asshole kid.
Nothing wrong with striking while the iron is hot
Now do it horizontally
I am not tempted by my intrusive thoughts, personally. Never understood the "intrusive thoughts won" meme. :P
The people making these jokes don't understand actual intrusive thoughts.
as a kid, I was the responsible for having the classroom's key in breaks for a while.
and deep down I always had an irresistable urge to throw that key out the window, to the road outside. never did... but... it was soooo tempting. no idea, why, though 😅
OMG your so literally cray-cray and quirky! Here's your participation trophy 🖕
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