My introduction to soldering electronics coincided with a rough patch in my marriage due to appliance failure. When my wife and I got married in 2014, in our quest to save money, we purchased a used ...

Assemble functional circuits quickly with the soldering irons at Sears think[box]. The heated tip on each iron melts solder to form electrical connections. For projects of this nature, you bring the ...

The image of the electrical engineer or hacker bent over and using a soldering iron on a circuit board is a classic visual cliché on TV and movies (Figure 1). Figure 1 The electrical engineer working ...

At some stage you will have to work with surface-mount devices (SMDs) and solder them by hand. You can wait until you are forced to learn, or you can leap into the fray with gusto and abandon. At some ...

The complexities associated with the use of solders in electronic products. What’s the alternative to solder? A long-standing adage observes that “if the only tool in your tool chest is a hammer, the ...