Soldering projects are a soothing and relaxing escape for me in the way others enjoy knitting or sewing. Usually. The photo above shows what happens when you’re on vacation and you try using an underpowered 8W travel iron. I guess now I know the limits of that tool!

@cn Exactly! Doing some tinkering to see how we might use it around the house. This one survived the bad solder job and I got that header off okay with a real soldering iron when I got back home.