Do you think NI can fix my PLL?

[Jim Thompson]

What is wrong with just saying, "I was working as a technician."?
There is nothing wrong with being a technician, if your really good at
it.

Seems everyone else knew what I said ;-)

...Jim Thompson

 

[Michael A. Terrell]

Seems everyone else knew what I said ;-)

...Jim Thompson

Or they just ignored it.


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prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida

 

[joseph2k]

Or they just ignored it.

Both are possible. I have done some teching myself. Been good with a
soldering iron since i was 10. Scant practice in the last decade though.

 

[Michael A. Terrell]

Both are possible. I have done some teching myself. Been good with a
soldering iron since i was 10. Scant practice in the last decade though.

I haven't done much soldering in the last five years, due to failing
eyesight and severe Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Why is it that some tools
don't seem to be a problem, but every soldering iron does after about
five minutes? I guess that the diameter of the handle is just right to
trigger the pain.


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Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida

 

[Joel Kolstad]

Michael,

I haven't done much soldering in the last five years, due to failing
eyesight and severe Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Why is it that some tools
don't seem to be a problem, but every soldering iron does after about
five minutes? I guess that the diameter of the handle is just right to
trigger the pain.

Ever tried those "pistol grip"-style soldering irons?

 

[Michael A. Terrell]

Michael,



Ever tried those "pistol grip"-style soldering irons?

I had one about 40 years ago, and it was a piece of crap. It only
lasted about a week before the element self destructed and shorted to
the tip. I haven't seen one since then. I do surface mount repairs,
and I can barely hold a regular iron. From what I can remember about
the pistol type, they were harder to aim.


--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida

 

[Michael Black]

Michael,



Ever tried those "pistol grip"-style soldering irons?

I wondered about those, it seems like such a small thing, but perhaps
it is what's needed.

I suspect one could even take a block of wood and make their own pistol
grip to turn the iron into a gun.

Michael

 

[Zak]

I haven't done much soldering in the last five years, due to failing
eyesight and severe Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Why is it that some tools
don't seem to be a problem, but every soldering iron does after about
five minutes? I guess that the diameter of the handle is just right to
trigger the pain.

Maybe also because one holds it in the same position, where other tools
are rotated or picked up repeatedly?

And it is hot so there is a certain interest in not dropping it -
tighter grab.


Thomas

 

[Michael A. Terrell]

Maybe also because one holds it in the same position, where other tools
are rotated or picked up repeatedly?

The angle changes as you work, but maybe not enough.

And it is hot so there is a certain interest in not dropping it -
tighter grab.

Thomas

The handle doesn't get hot, and some are barely noticeable. Only the
handle on my old 175 watt Weller gets warm enough to worry about. On
the other hand that monster weights five times what any of the others
do. I used to use a Wahl cordless iron for quick repairs, but the
square body became too hard to hold on to. I used their "tuner
extension tip" to get deep inside some equipment to resolder wires to PC
boards through gaps in a wiring harness.


--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida

 

[Rich the Philosophizer]

I haven't done much soldering in the last five years, due to failing
eyesight and severe Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Why is it that some tools
don't seem to be a problem, but every soldering iron does after about
five minutes? I guess that the diameter of the handle is just right to
trigger the pain.

It's because you've been holding it wrong since the very first time. When
you first picked it up, you found that holding it comfortably didn't meet
with the instructor's approval - or maybe it was the pencil when you
were learning to wrote - so you strained your hand to hold it the way you
were told, rather than find a more natural way to aim the iron, and you
ignored the pain.

Over the course of decades of having her pain ignored, your body has
finally said, "**** you, I'm on strike."

Sorry.
Rich
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[Rich Grise, Plainclothes Hippie]

Maybe also because one holds it in the same position, where other tools
are rotated or picked up repeatedly?

And it is hot so there is a certain interest in not dropping it -
tighter grab.

It is so trivially easy to _NOT_ get carpal tunnel syndrome, that it
almost breaks my heart to see the way people hurt themselves.

I have been in situations that have been blamed for CTS, (keyboard, mouse,
screwdriver, video games, soldering iron, pen/pencil, etc, etc, etc) and
I've felt the strain on my tendons, and rather than "play through the
pain", I rearranged the orientation of my wrist until it didn't hurt.

Duh.

Pain is Mother Nature's way of telling you, "Don't do that".

Of course, if you're in denial of the messages of your body, then you'll
continue to abuse yourself.

Good Luck!
Rich

 

[Rich Grise, Plainclothes Hippie]

The angle changes as you work, but maybe not enough.


The handle doesn't get hot, and some are barely noticeable. Only the
handle on my old 175 watt Weller gets warm enough to worry about. On
the other hand that monster weights five times what any of the others
do. I used to use a Wahl cordless iron for quick repairs, but the
square body became too hard to hold on to. I used their "tuner
extension tip" to get deep inside some equipment to resolder wires to PC
boards through gaps in a wiring harness.

Have you tried soaking your hands in a pan/bucket of hot water with maybe
some epsom salts, and flexing them in the warmth?

Good Luck!
Rich

 

[Rich Grise]

I wondered about those, it seems like such a small thing, but perhaps
it is what's needed.

I suspect one could even take a block of wood and make their own pistol
grip to turn the iron into a gun.

Styrofoam is much easier to carve. ;-)

Cheers!
Rich