Soldering SMD Elements

Thank you so much for your info. Yeah, I also was going to buy a soldering station via AliExpress. It's cheaper, than to buy it the other way.

I know that SMD are also cheaper, and it's easier to get them, and to use. However, there are almost complete plates for Arduino, etc.

SMD are the problem for me. You are right, it requires those magnifying glasses or something, but not only this! – hands must not be shaking.

My biggest problem is exactly shaking hands. To calm, or to put a heat gun accurately – is indeed a hard work. On the other hand, if I sew with a needle and sewing rolls, none of such problem occurs. I don't know why.

Besides, the process of soldering was always not an easy time for me, when I tried to just fixed my ear phones, etc – the thinest wires. Usually the solder alloy is never to stick properly. I think it's a chemistry problem, and as long as I heat the soldering place it makes the wire to get oxide, and it turns the procedure into a calmess one.

I can weld a 20ft long oil tanker frame that's worth 250k no problem but I can't solder SMD components

No i never joined i almost did because all of my frends at the martial arts dojo were Marines so all through my teen years i was hanging around military people so I picked up some of the lingo I know how to insult a Marine without other people understanding what was said

But i needed a vetter paying job then the one i had because i was the bread winner my wife was a stay at home mom with are baby daughter because i refused to have the daycare raise my kid call me old fashioned

So I taught myself how to weld by watching YouTube videos and then borrowing this MIG welder at work on my lunch break to practice with, then I went and had to lie on my job application where it required a minimum of 5 years welding experience because i had 0 experience (I felt bad for lying but I'd feel worse if there wasn't food on the table so I did what I had to do) then i took a 6G certification test (which is hard as hell to do, i was sweating like a French w**** sitting on the front row at a Pentecostal Revival haha) but i passed and got a job at a heavy machine shop making suspension systems and Chassis for caterpillar and a couple other big-name companies


I used a miller 454 pulse mig welder it was a big hot hard to use welder the wire was 1/16" and the spool was 100LB which is huge for a mig welder, there are so many welds on one of the 25ft oil barrel chassis that it required one and a half spools to weld the entire chassis and I could use up a spool in one 12-hour day that's a ridiculous amount of welding but I digress

and you had to be completely covered 0 skin showing which really sucked in the summer because the avrage temperature inside the shop for about 4 months out of the year was 114* Fahrenheit and probably in the 120's where you stand while welding because it would literally feel cool once you stopped laying a weld that's how hot it gets right in front of your face

but you can't show any skin or else you would blister so bad that you blead and you have to learn how to only use 1 hand when welding because its so hot that even with welding gloves and a heat shealed your glove would still catch fire if you were using your other hand to stabilize your welding hand because it was common to lay 1 to 2ft solid beads at a time you couldn't stop or else it would mess up the integrity so that's a long time to have your hand near that heat

I used a auto tint healmit but even set to the max 14 your eyes would still be fatigued by the end of the day sometimes I'd wear sunglasses up under my helmet that helped a lot

But i only did it for about 3yrs because even though the company was huge where i worked they had figured out how to get around OSHA safety laws because if they have it written down that they're working on a solution for an OSHA violation that gives them a 18-month time span where they're allowed to keep doing something out of Osha safety guidelines so long as they're "working on fixing the problem".

and then after the 18 months is up OSHA comes back in and they would write up a different plan to fix the problem and were given another 18 months and this persisted for years and years and in Texas 95% of hard labor/ blue collar workers in the metal working fealed are Mexican and they are pushovers because they dont want to get fired so no one ever complains about the slave like work environment so these companies get away with soooooo much bad stuff because they know that the Mexicans wont put there foot down.

So they never fixed the ventilation to give us the proper ventilation and when they tested the air quality the rating was from 0 to 800 (800 being the maximum parts per million that could safely be inhaled within an 8-hour work day) but the problem was we worked 10 to 12 hour work days but they only measured it for 8 hours of that day and still within that eight hours the measurement came out to 1750 PPM which means that in a 10 to 12hr work day we were getting over 2x the maximum safe levels and consequently I ended up with cadmium poisoning and probably a few other heavy metals and it was making me sick I was very toxic I developed bad asthma and I lost my night vision which to this day is still gone for the most part and I haven't been a welder in 8 years

So i try to avoid having to drive at night

I still have night vision it just takes about 4 hours for it to kick in as opposed to a few minutes with the regular person, quite annoying.

and yeah you can make your own getto stick welder by taking the transformer out of an old microwave the bigger the better and then cutting out the top section which is wired to produce about 3,000 volts which will send you to a different dimension real quick if you plug it in and get too close to it so you cut that section out and Rewind it with some 8 gauge or 4 gauge down to about 24 volts but the amperage would be much higher which is what you want
and that's technically good enough right there obviously you can add some more components and make it a lot better than that but if you just needed to get two pieces of metal melted together then that would do the job with an 11/16 rod good enough for some farm jobs I wouldn't trust it on anything I'm driving but it's good enough for around the farm .

ive actually got several huge 100v capacitors that i got from a guy local that i found on Facebook market that i plan on using one day to updrade my cheap flux core welder i got a few years ago because its not a good welder the voltage is unstable so the welds dont come out like i want them to and these capacitors were custom made by nichicon for a local audio company there 4.5LB each 100v 100000uf and he said they are "nichicon gold tone" he said his bulk price was 189$ each! idk what he charged the customer? but I do know that the amplifier that he used the men cost 100k! there were 2 per amp in the power supply ( this was an insanely crazy high-end company the kind that doesn't have to advertise kind of like Lamborghini and Ferrari doesn't have to advertise you just know because you got that kind of money same with this company a pair of 2 ft long interconnects ( so a two foot long set of RCA's) ranged from 2000 to $8,000 depending on which level you got.

they went out of business a few years ago which is why they were for sale on Facebook but I didn't pay $189 a piece I only paid $15 each so I grabbed 8 of them did I need 8? no ,

but i couldn't pass up that kind of deal? no so quality wise they're a bit overkill for my $150 flux core welder but the cheapest capacitor this size that I can find is about $80 each and they're piss poor quality in comparison to these so I think I came out pretty good on the deal