Guess who taught herself to solder from YouTube and has soldered her very first project? Quite proud 😊
Guess who taught herself to solder from YouTube and has soldered her very first project? Quite proud 😊
@ronguest Thanks! I was really intimidated by the whole idea of soldering for so long, and now I don't know what I was frightened of. If you read some guides first, watch some videos and take your time, it's really not that hard to do the basic stuff. I feel empowered to make all the things!
@bsag I even fail at the basic stuff. I tried soldering many times, and I’m still as bad at it as a newbie.
I’m happy for you you seem to have enough hand-eye coordination to get through the simple stuff.
I never had. I even fail at IKEA furniture. Putting together a simple table took me days, and it’s all banged up. Those schematics are just impossible to read.
@renevanbelzen That's interesting. I'm ok at following instructions on the whole, and I guess that my hand-eye co-ordination has probably improved a bit with sewing. I hadn't even plugged a soldering iron in before this project, but I found that once I got the feel for how long to heat something and how to handle the soldering wire, I got on pretty well. I do need a magnifier in future though - my ageing eyes did not thank me for having to stare at tiny components!
@bsag I’m ok with following instructions too. It’s understanding instructions where I tend to fail.
@renevanbelzen :-) I always wish the Ikea instructions had more verbal explanation, but I understand why they don't. I remember it took me a few bodged Ikea builds to understand the 'Ikea-way' of explaining things.
@bsag I don’t have enough income for that kind of learning. Getting rid of failed builds is expensive too, since I don’t own a car. I just put up with crooked furniture until it falls apart and have to build another disaster, uhm, IKEA flat pack. Their instructions clearly aren’t thoroughly tested, not for those low prices. Good copy writers are expensive and rare.
@renevanbelzen Very true.
@renevanbelzen When I said 'bodged', we lived with the mistakes we'd made in building the thing, rather than buying new. They just about held together...
@bsag Yes, the universe is as imperfect as IKEA furniture, both are bodged together through mistakes, or they wouldn’t exist.