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  • 1 if all parts are hot, it shouldn’t matter. As soon as you touch anything with the solder, it should distribute evenly around the pad and component.

    2 you just feed it into the joint

    1. If you are not quick enough, the flux in the solder evaporates and it becomes sticky. At this point, clean it and start fresh. Other possibility is that you didn’t heat part and component enough for the solder to flow







  • A gun’s purpose is to kill people, a car’s is not. The analogy is flawed.

    Still, assuming you have mandatory regular inspections of cars in the US, imagine you are an experienced mechanic by profession. Someone lends you a car and says it’s safe but you know immediately this rustbucket hasn’t been to an inspection in decades. By experience and papers. But you drive in a public space anyways and kill someone due to a fault that would have been found during an inspection. It is 100% your fault.

    As I understand it, following safety procedures would have prevented this death, in the same way nonfunctional brakes would certainly be found during service.

    On a side note, as an electrician who has to sign documents that electrical devices are safe to use, if one of those devices kills someone and I can prove that I followed protocol during testing, I am in the clear. Following rules makes the difference between a tragic accident and negligence.