The mega does.

^from his Big Book of Dad Jokes

:D

it's actually a book a bought for Imgur secret santa

@meratrix can you even get templeOS on your comp?

probably not

https://youtu.be/_HVEUvYpq28

I am newfagging

**FAIL**
because solder wont stick to this fancy white Hori PCB

I seemed to have burned some holes in my soldering tip

but how?

ive worked with different soldering irons and have not encountered this phenomenom<:thronk:441701565607444482>

a bad tip maybe or some kind of cemical reaction is my bet

acid resin core?

no idea. its a crap soldering iron and pack-in solder

i have a backup iron, so it would be nice to figure out what im doing wrong before i start using that one

@M4Gunner you've never had a tip go bad? @Nordhand is basically correct - you probably have been scraping it on metal wool? You get a little scratch going and then it reacts with the flux - that tip is going to melt from the inside out now once you get enough flux and tin in that hole.

Buy a new tip or just go for a new iron. The Goot adjustbale irons are cheap but super awesome

close, i tried cleaning it with a soft towel 🤣

good to know now, thank you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFKYUi3p8zY

this right here is something quite a few people who do a lot of soldering never use

some irons actually tell you to not use them

EG those Hakko stylus tips

but there's other stuff like some tips are just weak to a lot of flux or you may have nicked it

either way, unless you're using fancy Hakko tips most are pertty cheap. My most expensive Goot tip was maybe 1,200JPY (like $12)

I'd go for a Hakko station but I don't do nearly enough precision work to warrant it

AliExpress has 10packs of tips for $3

probly crap but i could afford to replace them every day 😄

well, it all depends on what you're soldering too

if you're doing surface mount and stuff like that then you should actually use a good iron and tip

but pretty much anything else and a $6 tip should last you a good year or more

I have a client trying to weasel out of a bill and I saw it a fucking mile a way. I put a stop on an addition to the order because I knew if it went any further he'd just drop off the face of the earth

im mostly practicing on cheap craft circuits and old PCBs. I probly wont try to solder onto a fresh board until i get better

if i had a nice station i might find a way to ruin it 😄

I bought a multimeter and one of the first things I learned was using it incorrectly can break it

once you get into it get a good multimeter. I've got a fluke I've been using for... like 20 years now 😄