[757labs] Class this Saturday

[Harold Scadden]

I finally decided to dive in and become the experimental pig for the
first class!  Well at least the first "hardware" related class.

This Saturday, at 2:00 PM, I plan on holding a Basic Soldering Class for
anyone who wishes to show up at the Lab.  With that said, if for some
strange reason we are swamped, I must give preference for room to
current Lab Members.  That is only fair to them.  I doubt we will run
out of room, so please show up if you want!


The game plan is to have the herd assembled by 2 PM and the actual start
time might be 15 or so minute later.  The one thing that would be nice
is to have a list of who all plans on showing up so I can have a roster
to know when it is time to start.  I won't wait all day and plan on
letting 2:15 PM being the delayed start time.

For anyone who wishes to attend please bring the following if you have
it:

1.  Your soldering iron, station, whatever you currently use.   PLEASE
DO NOT RUN OUT AND BUY SOMETHING!!! Unless you really want to.  There
are the good bad and ugly types of irons to waste money on.

2.  Hand Tools.  Most soldering hand tools could be classified as side
cutter diagonals or regular diagonals if you don't have those.  A
straight pick, tweezers, any heat shinks etc..  Again, don't run out and
buy stuff if you don't have it already.

3.  Safety glasses.  I am not going to demand that anyone wears a pair;
however, if you do not wear any type of glasses normally ... I suggest
getting a cheap pair.  Remember, solder is molten metal.  Your eyes do
not like it.  Burns to your skin are one thing ... burns to your eyes
are something you more than likely wont recover from.

4.  If you have any type of circuit kits or solder breadboards etc..
that you would like to work on, please bring them.  If you don't have
anything, please try to snag a cheap one from Radio Shack to play with.
Also, if you have some old components like resistors etc.. drag them
along so you can have something to solder on.

5.  Solder.  If you have your own type that you are used to working with
bring it.  If not, I should have plenty for everyone to play with.

6.  Solder wick / Solder sucker.  This is something that would be nice
to have, but it is not required.  We can pass around what we have.

7.  If you have a board vise or any other sort of device that you use to
hold circuit cards etc.. that would make life easier on you.  If not, we
will do it old school.

The objective to the course is not to turn everyone into a uber solder
dude but to at least give you some insight and hands on experience to
allow you to enhance your current skill set.  Since I just decided to
get stupid and give a class (oh joy!) I don't really have a course
written up so please handle the lack of continuity and we will all get
through it.