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Lol lets analize my soldering technique:
No flux? CHECK
Dirty Iron? CHECK
Solder on iron, then on component? CHECK
Too big an iron? CHECK
Too big of solder? CHECK
You see, I don everything wrong, EVERYTHING, besides hitting the component with the iron, I do just about everything wrong, however, I cn't change that without buying a new soldering iron + solder. However! I still manage to solder things on well...good...ok........well, usable....I won't say great, I won't even say ok but it works. It looks like my connections went to hell and back, then forgot to buy a shot-glass, and then went back again, 4hr layover, went for starbucks, missed the plane, stayed for a week, booked another flight, then came back. But alas, my connetions work, but only because I have to retry to make them 5 or 6 times. With my first build, I was in the garage soldering for 11.5 hours...didn't even eat luch, granted I want to eat my leg off at about 3pm...I still kept working 10am-9:30pm...then I was done, finally, after re connecting my re-tried reconnected re-tried connections (no that wasn't a typo) everything worked. Then, two days later, a pin fell out because my crappy soldering. SO...I guess...the moral might be...ummm...don't judge soldering...because...um........even if it looks bad, it works! =D ALSO, in the pic, was that blob of solder on the right an accident, or did you add that for asthetic appeale?
No flux? CHECK
Dirty Iron? CHECK
Solder on iron, then on component? CHECK
Too big an iron? CHECK
Too big of solder? CHECK
You see, I don everything wrong, EVERYTHING, besides hitting the component with the iron, I do just about everything wrong, however, I cn't change that without buying a new soldering iron + solder. However! I still manage to solder things on well...good...ok........well, usable....I won't say great, I won't even say ok but it works. It looks like my connections went to hell and back, then forgot to buy a shot-glass, and then went back again, 4hr layover, went for starbucks, missed the plane, stayed for a week, booked another flight, then came back. But alas, my connetions work, but only because I have to retry to make them 5 or 6 times. With my first build, I was in the garage soldering for 11.5 hours...didn't even eat luch, granted I want to eat my leg off at about 3pm...I still kept working 10am-9:30pm...then I was done, finally, after re connecting my re-tried reconnected re-tried connections (no that wasn't a typo) everything worked. Then, two days later, a pin fell out because my crappy soldering. SO...I guess...the moral might be...ummm...don't judge soldering...because...um........even if it looks bad, it works! =D ALSO, in the pic, was that blob of solder on the right an accident, or did you add that for asthetic appeale?
