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Re:How to Get Started in Soldering for Beginners by jjoonathan on Monday April 10, 2023 @12:59PM (#35514457)
Yep, ditto, except my realization came from a JBC encounter at work. I had to learn this meta lesson several times the hard way, because media portrayals lie and I had nobody to tell me different.

    Learn Good Tools -> Learn Bad Tools
is easy

    Learn Bad Tools -> Learn Good Tools
is hard. Learning has nonlinear difficulty in the number of variables and bad tools introduce distraction variables. Unless you literally can't afford the good tools, "survey professionals and then buy once cry once" is almost always the right approach.
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Re:How to Get Started in Soldering for Beginners by sidfthec on Monday April 10, 2023 @01:25PM (#35514779)
As always, it depends. If I bought the best (or even pretty good) model tool for every hobby I start, I'd be broke. Not every tool needs to be the best.
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