{"id":59,"date":"2011-10-29T18:03:15","date_gmt":"2011-10-29T18:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.katieluper.com\/?p=59"},"modified":"2011-10-29T18:03:15","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T18:03:15","slug":"solder-on-solder-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/?p=59","title":{"rendered":"Solder on, Solder off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.katieluper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/photo-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-60\" title=\"photo-5\" src=\"http:\/\/www.katieluper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/photo-5-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a>Well, after I finished my physics and programming homework, I got out the solder kit &amp; started the exercises. My initial thoughts? Simultaneously I thought that this is super fun and this is super scary at the same time. Second, this kit is listed under &#8220;Toys and Games&#8221; on Amazon.com . What kind of parent lets their kid play with 800 degree molten metal? When I was attempting to tin the tip for the first time, the solder popped and freaked me out. So far my practice solder patches and such look alright but it doesn&#8217;t really matter. The whole point of this is just to get some practice before I try a &#8220;real&#8221; project.<\/p>\n<p>I set up a sorta sketchy ventilation system that involved a box fan and an open window but I&#8217;m not really sure how to do it correctly. I felt like most of the fumes were going right out the window but it still made me a little nervous. I also began to realize the tools I need such as good needle nose pliers, a better wire cutter\/stripper, better safety glasses and such. Can&#8217;t wait to try again though!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, after I finished my physics and programming homework, I got out the solder kit &amp; started the exercises. My initial thoughts? Simultaneously I thought that this is super fun and this is super scary at the same time. Second, this kit is listed under &#8220;Toys and Games&#8221; on Amazon.com . What kind of parent &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/?p=59\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Solder on, Solder off&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tinkering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}