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Cake day: June 8th, 2023

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  • They’re similar. Generally welding is focused on fusing metals of similar makeup (I.e. steel to steel). While It does frequently (but not always) use “filler” but a good weld relies in the actual fusion of the separate metal pieces, basically melting the pieces together. The filler also tends to be similar in composition to the fused metals.

    Soldering uses a dissimilar metal to join pieces and it doesn’t fuse the pieces together.

    There’s also brazing, which is somewhere in between those two.

    But, yea, honestly I generalize it all into a hot glue gun for metal :-P






  • Yea, we’ve got it so easy today. These kids have no idea :-P

    But seriously, I’m sorry that sucks. I happened to be lucky enough with an uncle-in-law’s dad being an EE and just literally gave me a bunch of 6502 development stuff (by that time it was reasonably dated and he had retired). I also got lucky to live in a place where the libraries has tech and programming books that were pretty decent. Had those two things not been there, it would have been a very different story.

    I try to pay that forward any way I can by taking part in the local tech/invention/science fair thing. Hopefully to be there to show youngsters how wonderful and interesting tech can be.