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Rigby:

There are two or three things about soldering that people never seem to figure out on their own:

* Spend $100 on an adjustable temperature soldering iron.  The Radio Shack $25 irons will lift traces off your boards just as fast as a bench grinder can grind them off.  Ok, not quite that fast, but holy crap those irons are useless.
* Heat what you're soldering, NOT THE SOLDER.  Heat the legs & copper pad, not the solder.  Once the things you're soldering together are hot, touch cold solder to them.  The heated parts will melt the solder themselves, flow the solder correctly, and they will all cool together, forming a very good joint.
* Use a chisel tip, not a conical tip, for most work.  Using a conical (looks like a sharpened pencil in shape) tip makes it harder to heat up and convey the heat to your components.That said, read up and/or watch videos on soldering.  It is not hard at all, and there's no reason whatsoever that you should ever let soldering get the best of you.

lcmgadgets:

Yeah, I've suspected that another thing that'd help would b a chisel tip. A project I completed a while ago (nothing arcade related) required a really tight/tiny board, which meant I needed a really tiny soldering tip to get in there (yes, it was that tight). I've stuck with that tip since.

Time to spend a few bucks.

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