Well, Jack Daniels is one of the reasons why I don't drink, which is why I usually don't engage in the discussions on alcoholic beverages - no experience!
When I was young, probably 13-14, we visited the Jack Daniels distillery. At one point, they take you to the mash tanks, and I made the mistake of looking in while taking a breath.
Fortunately, I fell backwards, so someone was able to catch me...
Charlie
People have different levels of fine motor control. I am blessed with very steady hands and short sightedness which is a boon in this kind of work.
How I generally work on very fine stuff is, I rest the sides of my hands with little fingers on each side of the thing I'm working on; this means the hands are steady and you only have to worry about the fingers being steady. I use some 5x or 7x stereo magnifiers and a bright light to give me a good view of the thing I'm soldering.
For even finer work, below the 0.5mm pitch I've gone to, I've seen people rely largely on masses of flux to correct errors, and using solder paste. By the way, although you can get auto solder paste dispensers which allegedly dispense a controlled blob of gop when you press a foot switch, as far as I can make out they aren't calibrateable for the tiny dollops needed for fine work. But my colleague made himself a dispnser consisting of a hypodermic syringe filled with solder paste with a screw tightening widget on the back to squeeze ou microscopic amounts at a time, which works pretty well.
Also keep in mind the trick of using a wooden toothpick to hold down the top of a component while poking away with a soldering iron.
-- Nemo
You need to drink coffee and then solder. Works all the time.
Marc
Naaaaaah! Take it from one with many years of experience... excess sex calms the nerves and definitely mellows one out ;-)
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But you'll refudse to get out of bed and go to work if it was that good.
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Dude! He wants to IMPROVE the shaking, not attenuate it!
Absinthe...
REAL Absinthe.
The stuff that if one drinks it more than once, one begins to eat holes in one's brain.
Been illegal in hundreds of countries around the world for the last couple hundred years.
That crap that is out there now is ab-faux-sinthe. Kind of like modern "M-80s"... It only LOOKS like an M-80! Lets out a little POP instead of a BIG BANG! A REAL M-80 makes nearly a four foot diameter blazing white sphere of fire underwater when it goes off there. Then the fish start popping up... just local proximal fish, not like the pond ripper as with a whole stick of TNT or the like.
If my partner is sufficiently interested / invested in the final assembly outcome she will get me moving on the electronic project once again immediately after.
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