soldering

A couple weeks ago Isaac dropped one of our cordless phones into his pool while playing outside. Liz quickly took the phone out, removed the battery, and set it on a towel to dry out for a while. When I came home that day I decided to try and open the phone up. This was actually not that hard and once opened we let it dry out for a little longer since it was still wet inside. Unfourtunately in the process of opening the phone I broke one of the wires that connected the external speaker to the main board of the phone.

This is a closeup of the actual soldering that I did on the LCD display. I just soldered in some wires so I could plug it into my bread board easily.

So a couple weekends ago I finally got around to trying out the soldering iron that I was borrowing from Levi at work. He let me borrow his Radio Shack Mini Butane Gas-Powered Iron. It was okay, but I decided to just get one that you plug in to the wall so that I don't have to deal with refilling it. Also the gas powered soldering iron seemed to have a lot of heat coming out of the sides which caused it to start to burn the board I was working on.