deskthority

Get a fat tip iron that has more thermal inertia than a $6 iron, try to heat the substrate you will be applying the solder to first. Do not melt the solder directly with the iron. When you touch the solder to the pre-heated wire or whatever it is, it should flow.

Sometimes having a higher ...

I'd recommend buying a Soarer's converter from orihalcon. https://www.ebay.com/itm/302711725609. $40. I've bought several different ones from him and they've all been high quality.

If you do want to build yourself, I have heavily "annotated" the guide from xueyao, who really did a great job ...

Thank you so much, thank you guys for all the work you do and for being here. <3

Hey there, thank you so much! I honestly was not 100% sure if it was due to my doing the hardware part badly, or somehow a known / easy fix by way of the right firmware you guys might have been aware of.

If it's truly that the connections are where the most likely start needs to be here, I will ...

Okay, guys, please be gentle. I really hope I don't insult or infuriate this community, I am doing something scary and new and trying my best!!!

Before, the wires would be able to easily slide back and forth or up and down. Now I know this probably looks horrible but I am on a shoestring budget and ...

Oh wow, thanks for replying so fast! Okay, I will work on that right now. Thank you so much, I hope I don't botch this and will report back.

Hey y'all! I am completely new to this, in fact I am thinking I might be over my head.

I found an old Model F XT on ebay, they said they weren't sure if it worked because they couldn't connect it to their computer to test it themselves. But it looked to be in decent condition.

I found this post ...