On the floor?

I love soldering projects. I get out my soldering iron, stand, and solder and bring it to my workspace.

Oh, I forgot the sponge to clean the tip. Make another trip and bring that back.

Oh, I need to desolder something too, so make another trip to get the solder sucker.

Oh, and this piece moves around too much. I’ll go get my soldering helper to hold it.

Oh, I didn’t even get the wire?

By the time I’ve plugged in the fucking soldering iron I’ve gotten 2000 steps in and brought most of the contents of my workshop in a messy pile at my workspace.

Please don't forget the ventilation. Nasty stuff in solder.

Ah a fellow deskfloorian

I've used an inverted plastic bin before. Less strain on the neck/back that way. Also less chance of damaging the floors.

Why is it when I need to weld 2 pieces of steel together, I just have nothing more than the 2 pieces of steel, maybe a couple clamps, one angle grinder, and a chipping hammer. And the welder of course.

When I need to solder something I have 2 soldering irons, a whole soldering station, 2 dozen alligator clips, a fistful of odd bits of wire, 3 pairs of side cutters, 2 different types of flux, 4 spools of solder, 6 screwdrivers, and 2 cats.

I hate soldering.

Seeing the Milwaukee bit and the Dewalt drill. I too like to mix brands.

Soldered stuff and secured with cyanoacrylate, cured with a fan and clothes steamer cuz I'm too impatient to wait 15 munutes

E: I don't know why the goddamn ground pads on these boards is the biggest pain in the ass in the universe and it seems to actively reject solder regardless of what type of flux / solder used. I'm also not too impressed with my right channel lump there but what can a person do at this point, who cares it works and it's snug

What's the drill tipped with? I don't really understand what I'm seeing there.

edit: talking about 2 different things here

The blue soldering station looks identical to mine, a cheap thing from a cheap store. The tip + some ceramic keep falling out and (I guess mostly due to that) it doesn't work well anymore... yours seems to be fine? The tip in this pic looks almost as bad as mine.

I believe that is the heaviest soldering iron I have ever seen in 40 yrs of electronics 😂

Sir, that's clearly a drill.