My first attempt at soldering in many years

The first shock was it worked once I had finished, but can any one tell me what it is? I mean I know what it is but anyone else?

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exampasser

It's an Enigma board used for encryption/decryption of messages.

DevilWAH

Indeed it is

Went to a IT confrance at Bletchly Park (UK) last week and was given it. Have to say if you want to learn a bit about cryptography its a nice device to study. Both from an encryption point of view and a study in crypoanalysis.

jibbajabba

Soldering .. I was shocked - I am orginally Electronics Engineer and I worked (and soldered) SMT printed boards / components back in the day ... Now .. 15+ years later, I hardly can join to simple copper cable with solder lol

Here I tried to haxor a KVM in order to use my own surface mount push buttons including a built-in LED. You know how long that took me ? 2 Bloody hours

And I destroyed one of those switch LED because I soldered too hot .. at almost $15 a piece not nice ..

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Akaricloud

What have I told you about making timebombs...?

jibbajabba

Akaricloud wrote: »

What have I told you about making timebombs...?

Make them pretty ?

DevilWAH

jibbajabba wrote: »

Make them pretty ?

yes we want a smile on there faces as they get blown away..

psiebert

I had to solder the other day, man it was rough. Never really done it before, having a hard time keeping things steady. Any tips?

DevilWAH

get a bit of old strip-board Stripboard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

and have a good practice.

if you are just doing wire joins and other fiddly stuff get one of these to hold it steady

http://www.toolsinstock.com/admin/thumbnail.php?width=240&height=240&src=images/SD150.jpg

inscom.brigade

psiebert wrote: »

I had to solder the other day, man it was rough. Never really done it before, having a hard time keeping things steady. Any tips?

It take years to be great at it, just practice, it is a nice thing to be good at. watch a couple videos
I would make one recomendation:

do not hold your breath,(this helps steady things)

when melting the solder exhale, breath out and gently blow the fumes away.