Comments on: Great intro to surface mount soldering

By: Ashleigh

Ashleigh — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 04:36:15 +0000

I’m not even sure where American’s get the word from as The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language defines it as follows.

solÂ·der
n.
1. Any of various fusible alloys, usually tin and lead, used to join metallic parts.
2. Something that joins or cements.
v. solÂ·dered, solÂ·derÂ·ing, solÂ·ders
v.tr.
To serve as a bond between; join.
v.intr.
1. To unite or repair things with solder.
2. To be joined by or as if by solder.

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[Middle English soudur, from Old French soudure, soldure, from souder, soulder, to solder, from Latin solidre, to make solid, from solidus, solid; see solid.]

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solderÂ·aÂ·ble adj.
solderÂ·er n.

However when you use the http://www.thefreedictionary.com/solder talk it to me link it says soder? what’s goin on there? There pronunciation guid even says SOL-DER so I don’t get it….. But hey

By: carlton

carlton — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:11:24 +0000

Good intro to soldering down leaded packages. Of course, the real tough ones are the leadless — reason to get proficient with hot air/toaster (I still need to do that).

And here, in Rhode Island, USA, we say “sodder” or “soddah” (just completely lose that “r” sometimes).

By: TandemFixation

TandemFixation — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 04:51:22 +0000

You guys realy need to stop trolling, It realy doesnt matter how well some one pronounces Solder, or if UNIX has Flash, Quite frankly unix is not Free, and I doubt U are Using Real unix, you are using a free/Opensource unix. And just Because you refuse to install plugins into Firfox doesnt mean we cant Post it to Hackaday, there is nothing stating that HackADay is a FREE only Site. Hackaday exists to Share methods of modifying stuff. Mainly hardware.
Just so you know, all those mispellings and gramtical mistakes are intentional, just to make you waste time spell checking it. Stop Trolling and start Modding. Thanks.

By: ironpants

ironpants — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 06:40:54 +0000

to all americans: please stop incorrectly pronouncing the word “solder” – look up the etymology and you will discover that the first american brand of solder was “sawter.” it’s the same thing as calling all soda “coke.” how the hell can you look at the way it’s spelled and still say “sawter” with a straight face??

-an american who values the integrity of the english language.

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 18:26:55 +0000

For those without flash: http://www.revver.com/video/578153/surface-mount-soldering-101/

There is an option to watch it in QuickTime format.

By: Meuro

Meuro — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 01:55:28 +0000

I never said that he was wrong in the way he said. I simply said that I didn’t like the way that he says it and that it is irratating. At least he doesn’t have an AQI, but I find thats mostly in californians.
I’m used to the european english (which came first, which if there was a right or a wrong, would make it more right imho). All the people criticising (thats right I used a an ’s’, not a ‘z’ (pronounced ‘zed’ in the UK)), me and others for saying we prefer it one way are no better.

I’m probs gonna get a backlash from people defending their language, but fuck it, so what. I like european english. I grew up with it and it sounds better to my ears.

By: John

John — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:42:44 +0000

Unixgeek if you have such a problem with it, Don’t come here and find somewhere else to whinge if you don’t like that learn to be considerate of the other 99% of the world who uses Linux, Windows or Macintosh and not just the 0.0001% who uses Unix as they’re home Operating System. Moron.

This is a really good demo, I’ve known most of this for awhile but never thought of dragging straight across the pins I always thought you would get bridges but obviously not.

Good video, Kudo’s to the sodderer :P (I’m Australian and I honestly don’t see such a problem with it, it’s called ACCENT!)

By: Unixgeek

Unixgeek — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 06:37:46 +0000

@will o'brien: Flash is only available on Windows, OSX and Linux.. It's proprietary, closed source.. and not an open web standard.

Stop posting it here!

I want to for once visit the site without firefox asking me to install a non-existent plugin.

Damn tards..

By: Will O\'Brien

Will O\'Brien — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 05:37:17 +0000

I use flash under linux all the time. I don’t keep other variants as desktop machines, so I can’t say anything about those…. sheesh.

By: Unixgeek

Unixgeek — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 05:30:49 +0000

Here's an idea, how about you stop posting flash-only content.

Hardware hackers using Unix-like operating systems are common..

Get the idea? if it's not in an open video format, don't post it you idiots!

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 03:27:43 +0000

Wow, as a Canadian, I never knew that different parts of the world pronounced solder differently. I pronounce it “sodder”, because that is how I was taught to say it… And everyone who knows the word (that I’ve ever met) has pronounced it the same. I am, however pretty surprised at how much that bothers people :P

By the way, ” It may be different for European English, but an Englishman has about as much right criticizing the way Americans pronounce words as we have to criticize the way you call cookies “biscuits”.”
Mythgarr, that was about the greatest thing I have read all day. :)

By: Twisty

Twisty — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:07:45 +0000

Holy wow! Where was this video when I was younger. So many projects could have been saved! That was really well done and very informative.

By: flapjackboy

flapjackboy — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:15:20 +0000

@ greg: So is someone in the army a soddier then? No. They are a so’l'dier. You see what I did there? See where the l is?

By: allen

allen — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 06:46:18 +0000

Drag soldering is by far the best technique. I use it about every other day to solder very fine pitched smt chips. The syringe of paste flux works the best for most things. You can pick one up from digikey.

By: ed

ed — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 05:25:14 +0000

from australia, to be honest i had no idea it was pronounced ’soddering’ over there so there you go, guess i’m the douchebag.

it is an excellent video, the guy must have some good fine motor skils.