[geeks] my first electronics project

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Wed Aug 3 23:43:56 CDT 2005


On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 12:03:07AM -0400, Atom wrote:
> Words of advice if you want to do some serious soldering.
> - Get a nice iron. Weller makes a pretty nice one in the $99 range  
> (WES-50). Analog control but solders pretty nice
> - Good solder is crucial. Get some decent 60/40 solder. The ones that  
> you get with the cheap kits usually suck. Try some good solder and  
> you know what i mean.
> Years of soldering and about 20k solderpoints later that's what I can  
> give as an advice...

Thanks.  This was just a $30 kit for me to learn on..

Bill

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bill bradford
houston, texas



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