Christopher Kiefer well said

Yes!

good call on the cinematography. Wouldn't have thought of that but yeah, Colin's the Speilberg of geek vids

I get the vibe of Alton Brown’s Good Eats show.

@@michaelcoxjr Me too, plus a little bit of Thomas Dolby! :-)

Ben Shamsian

That guy cracks me up

Instructive too.

Yeah, he's amusing!

Well, they come with that tip from the manufacturer, it's not the distributor's fault.

+Jesse Leonard Those catalogs are like a mail-order treasure hunt. They won't even send you one willy-nilly, NOOOO, you have to ascend to the customer level worthy of being bestowed such a gift. I remember Will and Norm from tested.com and Adam Savage from Mythbusters talking about it on their podcast a long time ago as well.

I'd argue that for anyone who is looking to do electronics at today's scale, including surface mount components, Hakko's FX888 is about as cheap as you'd want to go, and an excellent choice no one will regret. It's about $100-$110, which I would not call extremely expensive. The cost is comparable to that of any decent power tool, like say a Makita 18V drill. Hakko has $2500 soldering irons for people who do this for a living. The soldering iron is your main tool as an electronics hobbyist, cheaping out on it will affect absolutely everything you build or repair. Trying to do everything with a single 25W mains-plug iron is, IMO, a mistake of false economy; you'll lose the difference in cost over your first couple of weeks, as ruined boards and components, wasted solder, and by spending 5 times as much time fixing and debugging your bodge jobs than if you had a good tool. When I was a kid, I could get by with one 25W Radio Shack pencil iron too, but those were the days of discrete, through-hole components only. I can't say that I'd want to use that today on something like a microcontroller or TSOP IC. And on that note, a lot of people are going to find out pretty quickly that they need a hot air station too; soldering is not just for irons any more!

Enjoyed that. Very Educational and sound track is quality :)

"Mr anderson"

Pfft he IS the Matrix.

He sounds more like the narrator from Twilight Zone.

Me sorder

oh my god....

No, its the doctors son from Star Trek Voyager

Great minds... 😂😂😭😭

i was thinking of the 1963 movie with lewis booth have the same name i should have writed wich movie i ment my apology.

Michael Turrell Lead free is not meant for soldering. 60/40 tin and lead is perfect