You would think it would make me feel better to know that every person has intrusive thoughts. But it doesn’t at all, quite the opposite.
Yall are as crazy as I am, we are doomed.
Thanks. In 10 years of soldering, never once had I had this thought. Now I can’t unseen it! Damm
Just give in, do it to one spool, and you can move on with your life. Resistance only makes it hurt more.
Oh this hurts physically. So much frustration when soldering with the small wires. So much wasted solder to save your fingers from burning.
Thanks. I hate it.
If your fingers are burning from soldering, you’re doing it wrong.
From feeding tiny bits of solder. Not from soldering.
I prefer grabbing small amounts of solder with the tip of the soldering iron instead. Helps a lot when solderling small stuff, esp. smd components
I prefer adding solder while soldering. The solder itself also holds flux, and often when you do it that way you don’t need to add flux yourself. Also if you solder through hole and you add solder to the tip before soldering all the flux dissappears, and you don’t have enough solder for the weld.
And small amounts of solder doesn’t mean short strips, which is what you get when you do what OP posted.
Source: I work in the circuit board population field. And do inspection and repairs.
