Looking spiffy. I recommend watching Voultar's videos on his soldering projects. The man is a wizard with an iron.
Also, the reason why smoke gets in your face is because the air in front of you is basically a negative pressure area, as everything else around you is flowing. Basically, the air between you and the smoke isn't moving, but everything around you is, and this basically pushes the smoke into you. A tiny desk fan blowing away from you, near the work might help, but don't have it blowing directly across the board, or you'll keep cooling everything you're trying to heat.
My soldering equipment is basically a ?W iron with a stand so light, the weight of the iron's cord likes to pull it off of the table, a little tub of flux, a couple spools of Radio Shack solder, a spring-loaded solder vacuum, a couple feet of de-soldering braid, and a small magnifying lens with articulated alligator clips. Oh, and I bought a soldering gun from a car parts shop as I has having issues with bigger soldering projects, like removing the massive heat sink of an RF modulator from my Atari 7800 (composite video mod), and re-attaching the power clip on my Crown Victoria's rear window defogger. The silly thing is, I have an electronic engineering degree, but I don't have a soldering station, desoldering gun, hot air unit, anti-static mat, articulated lights, large magnifying lenses, macro cameras, or a proper workstation with ventilation. I've made $0.00 with my degree, so never saw fit to put more money into it.
- Where it's always 1995.
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