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spacebug ([personal profile] spacebug) wrote2003-10-21 11:28 pm

hee!

This afternoon, I soldered the first thing I've ever soldered. This evening, I've decided that circuit bending is lots of fun, and sesame street children's toys are a lot better this way.

[identity profile] spacebug.livejournal.com 2003-10-21 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
It makes lots of neato messed up noise. I'm not done yet, but newbie ignorance just killed my soldering iron, so it may have to wait until I fix it or get another one. Darnit! At least they're pretty cheap. And hotmail hasn't worked since the first month I got a livejournal or so. Does it actually not bounce back? 'Cause I haven't known my password or cared to figure it out for over a year. You know my real address, don't you?

[identity profile] spacebug.livejournal.com 2003-10-21 11:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay, I think my iron is better now. And I'm armed with important new knowledge on oxidation and proper tinning. Hooray!

[identity profile] echoegami.livejournal.com 2003-10-22 09:02 am (UTC)(link)
Please share what you did and how you fixed it so I don't have the same problems please.
Btw, are you coming down today for round 2?

[identity profile] vaxjo.livejournal.com 2003-10-22 12:01 am (UTC)(link)
Killed your soldering iron? Oh no! I've had the same iron since I was, oh, 13 and I've done some pretty terrible things to it. (Perhaps if you had another iron you could repair the first? The tips can be replaced if you just gunked it up - but if it's not getting hot than you might need to just buy a new one. Logan has a butane soldering iron that I've seen him use. It's wild.)