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missing option (Score:5, Funny)
third degree burns
It's Art! (Score:4, Funny)
One of my favorite quotes (Score:5, Funny)
Welding! (Score:4, Funny)
Puny solderites! I connect things with REAL heat!
captcha: weakness. Lol.
Re:missing option (Score:5, Funny)
third degree burns
It's the last choice:"An elaborate series of burns (on self/furniture)."
Unless you're some kind of nut job and meant third degree burns on other people.
Re:missing option (Score:5, Funny)
I burn myself every time I solder.
Quick tip: try grabbing the other end of the soldering iron - the end that the power cable comes out of.
Ah, the smell of skin sizzling in the night (Score:5, Funny)
So many times in my youth I'd be so fixated on the work I was doing, following the schematic, routing leads, busses and cables. Often late into the night .. to the point I really should have set things aside for a good examination in the morning, with a well rested brain. Usually this would become clear when I'd miss the soldering pen rest and use my own hand for it. I have the scars, some really big ones, to show for it.
Also, don't fling solder blobs, you never know where they'll land, particularly when wearing flip-flops.
Re:missing option (Score:5, Funny)
I bought my soldering iron for $5 at Radio Shack, that is the hot end!
Re:missing option (Score:5, Funny)
Re:missing option (Score:4, Funny)
Noted... I have a soldering iron with the fingerprint of my thumb permanently imprinted on the hot end. Stupidity or theft deterrent - you decide.
Re:When I was a lad ... (Score:5, Funny)
.. when I bought my first home computer in 1978 (a 1MHz Z80-based NASCOM 1) it came as a bare motherboard and a bag of chips (ICs, not potato) and you had to build it yourself.
Then we memorized the Z80 assembler op codes and wrote programs directly in hex, poking those codes into the chips we'd just soldered in.
And we liked it like that.
So it was "Some assembly required" then, eh?
Pick two? (Score:5, Funny)
Clumsy but workable solder joins. and
Prettier joins than I see in my OEM equipment.
Re:None of that PB-free junk (Score:5, Funny)
PB = peanut butter , Pb = lead. I avoid solder with peanut butter in it.
Competent and Clean... but (Score:5, Funny)
I did give myself and elaborate series of burns on one occasion.
When I was 19 I messed around with a soldering gun in my garage and happened to be naked. Don't ask me why, it's not like it was the first or last time, or that I am the only person to constantly find himself naked after getting stoned. Yeah.. I'm one of those people at the party that loses their pants.
Anyways....
I'm sitting there and just soldering crap to other crap and become absolutely fascinated with the molten solder. The way it shines and pools around on the table.. so beautiful.. so memorizing... so holy-fucking-shit-thats-hot.
The solder ran down off the table, and because I was jammed super close to the table, down my chest, down my stomach, across my penis, over my balls, down my legs, etc.
Obviously anywhere the solder touched became hairless (instantly) and left these wonderful bright bright pink lines on my body. It was a not-so-temporary-but-no-permanent tattoo.
Always solder while sober kids.
Re:missing option (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Ah, the smell of skin sizzling in the night (Score:4, Funny)
Reminds me of a friend's story of staying up late to rebuild an engine. At some point, as the hours wore on, he thought he'd fire it up with the valve cover off to "see how it was running."
Luckily the oil was cool so he only had an incredible mess to clean up instead of horrifying burns from hell's fountain.