First soldering lesson for me. Is it very obvious which side is the teacher and which side is the student?

#solder #bleepler

I just bought bleepler kits from this wise sage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-R-5hTBNcI

Can't wait to learn how to solder to put them together!

#Loblast #bleepler #solder

Rambling "How I Spent My ${DURATION}" braindump.

Last week I was carrying bags of water softener #salt into my furnace room and noticed a small #limescale deposit on the floor in the middle of the room that hadn't been there a few days before. Directly above it are a bunch of water #pipes going off in different directions. Found one 90 degree elbow that had more than the usual accumulation of green stuff on it, like a tiny #stalactite. Okay, water #leak found.

I was going to wait for the weekend to fix it, but it seemed to be speeding up, so I did it Wednesday. I had to cut a chunk of #convoluted pipe out of the system that was way more complex than it should have been. It had to go around other #pipes and join another #pipe and around some joists, but the #plumber who put this in 40 years ago had a #fetish or something. No word of a lie, it reminded me more of the Windows NT "pipes" #screensaver than anything else.

In a volume about the size of a 2L bottle of pop, there were 4 #elbows, 3 #unions, and five little pieces of pipe if I remember correctly. I soldered together a matching jumble of parts ... and then couldn't solder one side of it in, because it's at a local low point, and I couldn't get the last dribbles of #water to stop. Any water wicks the heat away and the #solder doesn't stick.

Ended up using a #flex line with #sharkbite connectors to replace the whole thing. What a shame, I was proud of my replacement.

#DIY #plumbing #HomeRepair

Meine ersten Lötversuche habe ich euch hier aufgezeichnet. Mein Mann hat es mir super erklärt. Am Anfang war ich noch etwas zögerlich, aber nach ein zwei Versuchen wurde es dann immer besser und meine Hand wurde immer ruhiger.

I recorded my first soldering attempts for you. My husband explained it to me really well. At first I was a little hesitant, but after one or two tries I got better and my hand became steadier.

#BlinkyParts #löten #diy #solder #basteln

https://youtube.com/shorts/wmgbxa27VbU?feature=share

Only #fans - Smol HP PC in use at local trade association making aircraft noise, turns out there are *two* fans inside this one - both had to be replaced. Second fan under HDD supplied with wrong connector (in spite of checking part number), as the correct ones were unobtanium (and even then there is 50% chance wrong one arrives) I had to #solder cable from old #fan (not fun job, 0,25mm cable and working with fingers just 10mm from soldering iron tip with 355°C (at least I managed not to burn my fingers ))

Now the PC is quiet again...

My wife is a long time fan of #Fallout, particularly 3 and #NewVegas. For Christmas last year I bought her a #mightyohm Geiger counter kit. ☢️

She finally assembled it today. ♥️

#solder #diy_electronics #diy #soldering

For the holidays, my son and I got a new soldering station. To make it more useful we designed and 3D printed an accessories holder which fits to it. Turned out extremely well! #aldi #parkside #solder #electronics #3dprinting Thanks to @FreeCAD

All files, including the CAD file, can be found here: https://makerworld.com/en/models/2184855-accessories-holder-for-parkview-soldering-station