It was a crisp Saturday morning. I had my boots laced up and a fallen oak tree waiting in the […]

I remember the exact moment I realized something was wrong. I was out back on a crisp Saturday morning, cutting

The first time I dealt with cold solder joints, I thought my iron was bad. It was a Saturday afternoon

This usually happens at the worst time. It is late in the evening. Half a project is done. The solder

It’s early evening on a Tuesday. I’m out in the garage, trying to finish a project I started three weeks

It was a cold Saturday morning in December. I was trying to fix a loose wire on a small circuit

I had one of those slow days when nothing seemed to work right. I sat at my bench, turned on

Last weekend was a headache. I was in the garage trying to fix a trailer light connector. It was cold

The first time this happened to me, I thought my tool had lost its mind. My soldering iron felt hot,

I stood in my freezing garage last week. My repair job was almost done. Then, the heat stopped. It is