Originally Posted by Jazzmarazz
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I was thinking that too!
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Resin huh?(rosin)
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Ayo b.
Lol shut up. I was trying to remember if resin was for violins or soldering. I knew it was resin or rosin.Resin huh?
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"Happy Valentine's Day, honey... time to earn these chocolates and roses."Might have to wait for my GF to get home and lift it with me.
If it's a used iron, you'll want to put a new tip on it. An old tip doesn't conduct heat as well, and can turn a simple job into a headache (and possibly cause a few burnt fingers).
I use rosin or flux-core solder, lead-free plumbing stuff for most things (guitar cables, tinning speaker wires, etc) For circuit boards or other small, fine work, I get the fine, silver-based electronics solder in the little plastic tube. I forget the brand name.
Oh, and there's rosin for violin bows, also. Just a different kind.
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I have only bought two tips for my iron only because I didn't know how to fix them, otherwise it would only be one."Happy Valentine's Day, honey... time to earn these chocolates and roses."
If it's a used iron, you'll want to put a new tip on it. An old tip doesn't conduct heat as well, and can turn a simple job into a headache (and possibly cause a few burnt fingers).
I use rosin or flux-core solder, lead-free plumbing stuff for most things (guitar cables, tinning speaker wires, etc) For circuit boards or other small, fine work, I get the fine, silver-based electronics solder in the little plastic tube. I forget the brand name.
Oh, and there's rosin for violin bows, also. Just a different kind.
Since then I have been using the same tip for about three heavy years.
Basically I file it to a sharp point and tin it with solder and rotate the tip on a soldering sponge to evenly coat it in solder. Because of this, I can make the tip much much sharper and reuse it for years to come. This doesn't work with my desolderng tip because it is hollow and becomes too wide to use after many uses.
Ayo b.
I bought the thing a couple of years ago and only used it for a few days, so the tip is still nice and new. Has some melted plastic on the shaft, but otherwise, new. And actually, my solder was flux-core.If it's a used iron, you'll want to put a new tip on it. An old tip doesn't conduct heat as well, and can turn a simple job into a headache (and possibly cause a few burnt fingers).
I use rosin or flux-core solder, lead-free plumbing stuff for most things (guitar cables, tinning speaker wires, etc) For circuit boards or other small, fine work, I get the fine, silver-based electronics solder in the little plastic tube. I forget the brand name.
Oh, and there's rosin for violin bows, also. Just a different kind.
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Thanks for the info, Jazz. I may try this with my next new soldering tip.I have only bought two tips for my iron only because I didn't know how to fix them, otherwise it would only be one.
Since then I have been using the same tip for about three heavy years.
Basically I file it to a sharp point and tin it with solder and rotate the tip on a soldering sponge to evenly coat it in solder. Because of this, I can make the tip much much sharper and reuse it for years to come.
EDIT: Well, folks, I'm out for now. Stuff to accomplish, and all that. Later!
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Actually, 15% of the time the PC gets BSOD'd, and it's usually on from after 11 AM to about midnight.
The other reason, is because my Internet connection is extremely slow (takes forever to watch videos on the Internet, and three days for a 900MB file to be downloaded) and apparently, it seems to be getting slower
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Although how it takes 7 MB files 5 hours to download and 9 MB files 3 hours to download, I have no idea.
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Thanks for the info, Jazz. I may try this with my next new soldering tip.
EDIT: Well, folks, I'm out for now. Stuff to accomplish, and all that. Later!
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You have a motherboard virus.Actually, 15% of the time the PC gets BSOD'd, and it's usually on from after 11 AM to about midnight.
The other reason, is because my Internet connection is extremely slow (takes forever to watch videos on the Internet, and three days for a 900MB file to be downloaded) and apparently, it seems to be getting slower
...
Although how it takes 7 MB files 5 hours to download and 9 MB files 3 hours to download, I have no idea.
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Ayo b.
Wow. Sounds nasty.
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Not as scary as that emergency broadcast about the dead attacking the living though.
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Night Emuparadisians.
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Set android to install from untrusted sources, and then download it off the Internet.
Save your money.
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