Category: Geeks r Us
Pretty confident I kno the answer to this, but has anyone had any success with a solder iron or does anyone kno of anyone that has?
I've had a skim through a tun of guides and it seems very inpractical for a total but there must be someone who has at least tried and failed?
Around 3 years ago I thought it was so cool that I was learning how to build pc's. I killed a few things but the first time that something that I made myself turned on I was over the moon.
3 years later and i've done many hardware repairs, even semmy rebuilding a psu.
Now however, whilst theres always things to learn, I am wantin to perform more advanced repairs. My interest has expanded in this field since I was given a laptop a couple months ago who's power plug needed soldering onto the board again. This seems to be a easy fix for someone who has the abilitty to solder, so it seemed logical for me to investigate how possible it would be if you are blind.
Your thoughts how ever crytical will be apreachiated.
p.s: the mid part of this post sounds a bit cocky - my intention was meerly to explain why I wanted to learn how to solder.
BEN.
I've heard of blind people who could solder. There's actually tools that have been made to help. Don't know what or where they are though.
What about a product called J B Weld? would it be possible to fix the laptop with a tube of it? I might be totally crazy, but they claim it'll hold anything together.
As far as soldering goes, contact Dick Davis or Al Spooner at BLIND, Incorporated in Minneapolis. One's a blind guy and the other a shop teacher and I'm pretty sure both have soldered blind.
the website for Blind Inc is www.blindinc.org
good luck
There was or is an organization in California called the Smith-Kettelwell Foundation. (Hope I spelled that right). They did a magazine for many years called the Technical File. In the first issue, I understand they discussed this very issue. A friend of mine just sent me the link to all the issues a couple of days ago, so your timing is impecdable. Here's the link.
Lou
http://www.ski.org/Rehab/sktf/techfiles.html
I am almost sure that's exactly where I heard about it!
Talk about a bump, but does anyone kno how much these blind people were able to solder? When you say there able to solder, do you mean that they put components onto a pcb that didn't really do much? I'm looking for something that someones done thats actually usefull.
Chears.