[Noisebridge-discuss] Soldering Workshop

[Alex Perez]

On Oct 27, 2008, at 3:51 PM, Mark Cohen wrote:

> I'm planning on spending a lot more time in the space and always happy
> to teach people how to solder. If you are interested, feel free to
> either drop me a line or hit me up when I'm there to show you how to  
> do
> it.
>
> Often I've found that if you have an old board with thruhole parts,
> desoldering and removing parts is a really good way of teaching  
> yourself
> to solder and as a bonus, you can often salvage parts that you can use
> in other projects.

Very true, Mark! In addition, often times with lower-pin-count DIP or  
SOIC/TSSOP (even others) surface mount components, you can often times  
"harvest" them with a heat gun (I have one if anyone would like a  
tutorial) and put them to creative re-use in other projects. Often,  
this can save you boatloads of money. I have some old VME boards which  
are about 1.5' by 1.5' and they are a goldmine for reusable basic  
logic components, as well as some soldered-on ceramic Motorola 68030  
CPUs. and DRAM chips. I think I paid $15 for six of these boards, and  
had I bought them as new (or even as salvaged items) I'd have easily  
paid a couple hundred dollars for the same bits.

The take home here, of course, being that this can be a BIG money- 
saver, if you know what yo look for or are willing to learn.

>
>
> -Mark <kripto>
>
> On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, Mitch Altman wrote:
>
>>
>> I hope you're feeling better.
>> I'll be doing more soldering workshops.  And there's now lots of  
>> solder irons and tools for soldering at Noisebridge.  So, feel free  
>> to ask me (or anyone else who knows soldering) to show you some  
>> tricks.
>> Mitch.
>> ---------------> Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:17:16 -0700> From: albill at arcanology.com 
>> > To: maltman23 at hotmail.com> CC: noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net 
>> > Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] Soldering Workshop> > I'm sad  
>> that I missed this by being sick. I haven't soldered anything in >  
>> 20 years and forgot everything from my high school class.> > Al> >  
>> On 10/26/08 9:05 PM, Mitch Altman wrote:> > Thanks to everyone who  
>> learned to solder at the Soldering Workshop! I > > added a couple  
>> photos to the event page for it:> > https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Soldering_Workshop 
>> > >> > About 20 people were there, and about 15 had never really  
>> soldered > > before, and successfully completed their Trippy RGB  
>> Waves kit, and I > > hope are all now confident that they can  
>> solder!> >> > I'll do another Soldering Workshop again when/if  
>> folks are interested.> >> > Mitch.> >> >  
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