A set of tools like this can literally last a lifetime. They fit into a convenient pouch like a Klein Tools 5139. You can conquer the world with this kit! Everybody has individual tools that they like ...

Most, if not all, engineers know how to handle a soldering iron. But there are a few folks in the industry who want to know more about those wisps of smoke they sometimes see rising from our ...

The process in which 2 or more metal items are joined together by melting and passing a filler metal (having lower melting point than the workpiece) into the joint is called Soldering. Here, we have ...

Having soldered one end of a wire to a switch, you move on to the next step in your hack, soldering the other end of the wire to the more temperature sensitive pin 11 on the 6847 video chip. You set ...

Anyone else done this? It's just an incredible pain the the ass. I'm talking about those super fine wires found in headphone cable, coated in colored varnish.<br><br>First, they are so fine and tiny, ...

Hrmm, I changed the position of my audio equiptment stands and unfortunately I'm now short by 10 feet of Acoustic Research 16GA wire. I would run the wire under the floors (from one side of the room ...

With the aim of making micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) even more powerful in the future, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology (ILT) in Aachen have developed a ...