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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.

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[–] [email protected] 177 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Thanks. In 10 years of soldering, never once had I had this thought. Now I can't unseen it! Damm

[–] [email protected] 84 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Just give in, do it to one spool, and you can move on with your life. Resistance only makes it hurt more.

[–] [email protected] 95 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That depends on the current and voltage

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Back in the day I was told:

The volts give you the jolts
But the amps give you the cramps

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

The volts jolts, the mills kill.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

No need for great resistance: all it takes is for a person to have a large capacity to stop being induced by such messages into doing such acts.

At worse you just get stuck in a loop of "should I do it or should I not do it".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

I see what you did there.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Well, facebook shorts have plenty of people doing exactly this in their "amazing crafts" videos where a dude usually does something extremely stupid and hazardous. I eyeroll when one pops up now

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 7 months ago (3 children)

If your fingers are burning from soldering, you're doing it wrong.

[–] [email protected] 150 points 7 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago

I have that same soldering pen. Apparently I've been holding it wrong for years. I'm such an amateur.

[–] The_Overseer 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Is that pic from alamy ? I can't tell

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago
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[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago (1 children)

From feeding tiny bits of solder. Not from soldering.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (10 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I just hold the whole roll with a bit rolled out straight in one hand, and the iron in the other. I think I might be doing it wrong lol.

What do y'all expect?! I taught myself how to solder because my pokemon yellow cart died!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

It really depends on whether it's soldering of SMD or THT components: it's a lot nicer to just feed the solder when doing through hole pins until it's just the right amount for that pin and as you pointed out the flux is in the solder, but if you're manually soldering SMD components with their tiny 0.5 mm legs or smaller, a tiny bit of solder on the tip of the iron is enough for 3 or 4 legs and the soldering wire (even the .3mm stuff) just gets in the way and even makes it much more likely to get solder bridges.

Mind you, I don't think SMD components are soldered in professional production settings since it's way simpler to just use a pick and place machine and a soldering oven, so it probably only matters for hobbyists.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

To be fair, neither are typically hand soldered in profesional environments anymore (outside of rework). Surface mount stuff gets paste and sent through a reflow oven. Through hole stuff gets wave soldered or sent through a selective solder machine. The only thing I can think of that needs to be hand soldered anymore are batteries because sending a lithium ion battery through a reflow oven or over a pot of molten metal is a bad idea.

Also, fun side fact, lithium ion batteries also explode if you stick then in antistatic bags. I'll let you imagine how our inventory people discovered that.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Was it satisfying? How did it feel? Don't be shy about details.

I'm... err... asking for a friend.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No need to ask. I'll be your friend.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Thank you. ❤️

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago

Nothing wrong with striking while the iron is hot

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Why isn't this post marked as NSFW

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

Melting crayons on oldschool incandescent lightbulbs was EXTREMELY satisfying as a kid

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Somehow, and I honestly don't know how, I have passed by countless fire alarms in my life and resisted the urge to pull every one I see. It's been 46 years. Here's hoping my record will continue to be unbroken.

But my goodness, I've spent a long time resisting the History Eraser Button. Those alarms are even jolly and candylike!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Please don't erase history! We need it 😭🙏

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I hope they weren't in California, that stuff causes cancer in California.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

as a kid, I was the responsible for having the classroom's key in breaks for a while.

and deep down I always had an irresistable urge to throw that key out the window, to the road outside. never did... but... it was soooo tempting. no idea, why, though 😅

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

This is what i've been doing as a kid.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I sometimes have my rosin and solder paste in similiar containers next to each other. It happens everytime that I want to accidentally dip my soldering iron into the solder paste

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Last time I dipped my soldering iron into the solder paste I ended up with an asshole kid.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

I used to regularly mangle candles with paper clips I would heat up in the flame and then use to skewer them. There's something super cathartic about just melting the fuck out of things.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

OMG your so literally cray-cray and quirky! Here's your participation trophy 🖕

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (14 children)

I am not tempted by my intrusive thoughts, personally. Never understood the "intrusive thoughts won" meme. :P

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

You’ve never been near a ledge and thought, "what if I jumped?"

Never thought about dipping a finger in the blender or light socket?

Never thought of or touched something that you knew was way too hot?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Yes. All the time, and worse options besides. But there's no temptation to do those things. It`s more like I'm being reminded that those are options, that nothing besides my own will -- and the fact that I am in control of my body -- prevents me from doing them. It's scary. I hate it.

The part I don't get is the idea that other people claim to have voices urging them to do these things.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Do you have an inner monologue? Some people don’t and that’s okay but a lot of people do have a "voice" for their conscious thoughts.

But the other thing you described is intrusive thoughts. We think, "This is a thing I could do" and we mostly don’t do them bc we think about the consequences and our inhibitions kick in.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Yes, I have inner monologue. And yes I know what I am describing is intrusive thoughts.

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