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Whales:
Other than an article claiming a politician is asking to hold people's hands "using a soldering iron" the best I could find is this:
https://mullard.org/blogs/news/donald-has-now-gone-bye-bye-but-how-about-a-presidential-soldering-iron-that-trumps-a-weller
EDIT: 240 watts?!?! That explains why it gets "red hot" and "lively". Awesome.
Halcyon:
--- Quote from: Shock on May 12, 2022, 06:11:38 pm ---Still trying to fix the NBN that was never broken I see.
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If it were built properly, we wouldn't have these issues. Fibre connections don't need solder joints.
vk6zgo:
--- Quote from: Kerlin on May 12, 2022, 10:58:36 pm ---I like him, he shut down all Electronics R&D and manufacturing and continued the dumbing down of education.
Leaving the country without Electronics specialists. Now there is only untrained capacitor changers available to employers.
Makes it dead easy for me to continually move around between jobs of my current choice, at the pay I ask for.
Really, really enjoying it. Thanks heaps matey.
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In fairness to Scotty, the "dumbing down" thing was well under way before his time.
Govts from both sides got suckered into the "ask Industry what they want"slogan.
This might have worked when Industries were run by old scary buggers who knew what their company did, & had the solder burn scars to prove it, but in the modern era, the Boss is a non-technical MBA, with a deep suspicion of "technical types", who just reads the specification for a job, without any deeper understanding.
The result is a lot of "monkey see, monkey do" minimally trained drones.
vk6zgo:
--- Quote from: Whales on May 12, 2022, 11:24:21 pm ---Other than an article claiming a politician is asking to hold people's hands "using a soldering iron" the best I could find is this:
https://mullard.org/blogs/news/donald-has-now-gone-bye-bye-but-how-about-a-presidential-soldering-iron-that-trumps-a-weller
EDIT: 240 watts?!?! That explains why it gets "red hot" and "lively". Awesome.
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If some sharpie had found a pile of old stock irons of that brand, he could have made a killing.
Don would probably sue, though!
AndyBeez:
I too was pondering how the solder smoke was not trailing into his face? Is he so negatively charged that not even smoke particles can approach?
Observing the thermal mass of that choke, it would have required more than a few seconds/minutes/days to heat the pad to melting point with such a weedy tip. Maybe the spin doctors wanted to avoid metaphors about holding a smoking hot iron? Even so, it's nice to see the political class learning shop skills 101. Just in case they need to work for a real slave wage.
I must say, that photo-op is rather reminiscent of an article illustration from a vintage 70's electronics magazine. The one where 'dad' and 'son' assemble a model railroad speed controller, whilst mum looks on adoringly.
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