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20 years of experience soldering (i got into electronics at a very young age) has taught me that the iron matters nowhere near as much as the skill. ok, so a good variable iron will make life a bit easier but i´ve had a pretty basic iron from the word go and have never had the need to get anything better and have never been stuck with it. good practise i to keep the tip clean (i scrape it after nearly everytime i solder a joint) a well ventilated area (you need to stay focussed and inhaling chemicals makes your head sore and your hands shake) and good even light. a little practise 1st, really you don´t need much, and you´ll have no probs tackling intricate issues (just last week i opened up this very latop and resoldered a few connections that had become loose and while the cheap iron i bought did me no favours it all worked out in the end.)
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mother nature made the aeroplane, and the submarine sandwich, with the steady hands and dead eye of a remarkable sculptor.
she shed her mountain turning training wheels, for the convenience of the moving sidewalk, that delivers the magnetic monkey children through the mouth of impossible calendar clock, into the devil's manhole cauldron.
physics of a bicycle, isn't it remarkable?
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