Like many mechanical skills, soldering may seem fairly daunting if you’ve never done it before, but it’s really not that hard. If you need a basic getting-started guide, you could try out the new Soldering is Easy comic book. I think the only thing it really could use is a better guide to buying a soldering iron (lots of beginners buy the cheapest ones they can from Radio Shack, which is a guaranteed road to burned fingers and frustration). Check it out.

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