Steve Cook
Flying Squad
Carpet Monster 1 : Cookie Nil
Soldering Iron 1 : Cookie's finger Nil
Ruston 1 : Rest of Cookie 1 (forcing a draw really, which is a poor show considering its a battle of wits between me and an inanimate object
)
You know its going to be one of those days when the very first bit you snip off the etch gets eaten by the carpet monster...bugger.
A brief loss of concentration followed by a small brush of the finger against Big Bertha, the 100W iron. Not too bad you may think, unfortunately she'd just warmed up to temp...bugger.
Other than that, my hands seem to not want to do what my brain is asking them to do, hence its been a frustrating day of dropping stuff, attempting to manipulate and solder small brass bits and generally getting a bit annoyed. Nothing to do with the kit, just operator error
Some successes though, the sand boxes at the front are in place, the steps have been made and soldered in (using a 'spare' from the second kit in the cupboard) whilst the bonnet sides have also been sweated into place (I thought I'd try Bertha out for this, significantly quicker than the 50W iron, until one takes into account the amount of time spent holding finger under cold water
)
Currently a bit further on than the above photo, will update later
Steve
Soldering Iron 1 : Cookie's finger Nil
Ruston 1 : Rest of Cookie 1 (forcing a draw really, which is a poor show considering its a battle of wits between me and an inanimate object
)You know its going to be one of those days when the very first bit you snip off the etch gets eaten by the carpet monster...bugger.
A brief loss of concentration followed by a small brush of the finger against Big Bertha, the 100W iron. Not too bad you may think, unfortunately she'd just warmed up to temp...bugger.
Other than that, my hands seem to not want to do what my brain is asking them to do, hence its been a frustrating day of dropping stuff, attempting to manipulate and solder small brass bits and generally getting a bit annoyed. Nothing to do with the kit, just operator error
Some successes though, the sand boxes at the front are in place, the steps have been made and soldered in (using a 'spare' from the second kit in the cupboard) whilst the bonnet sides have also been sweated into place (I thought I'd try Bertha out for this, significantly quicker than the 50W iron, until one takes into account the amount of time spent holding finger under cold water
)Currently a bit further on than the above photo, will update later
Steve
