Karyn
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Don't you just hate it when...
.. you spend hours ages a while hand soldering a D15 (VGA) plug to a multi-core cable only to find you have to take it off again because you forgot to put the stupid strain relief gromit on the cable first..
AAARRGGHHH!!!
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Re:Don't you just hate it when...
2012/10/10 08:34:49
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Arrghhhh. I find soldering so painful on my eyes these days that reading your account curled my toes. Good luck! I hope it goes better next time. best regards, mike
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Re:Don't you just hate it when...
2012/10/10 08:37:07
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Indeed--and it always happens when you get the solder joint perfect the first time and that's what you have to undo.
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Karyn
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Re:Don't you just hate it when...
2012/10/10 08:39:02
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I'm using a needle point iron, solder paste and a head magnifier*
*Before anyone sezit... that's a head mounted magnifier, my head is big enough already..
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Re:Don't you just hate it when...
2012/10/10 08:46:46
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Karyn
.. you spend hours ages a while hand soldering a D15 (VGA) plug to a multi-core cable only to find you have to take it off again because you forgot to put the stupid strain relief gromit on the cable first..
AAARRGGHHH!!!
I wouldn't ever be THAT stupid. (or would I?) Even if I was the grommet would stay off and I'd likely botch some sort of strain-reliever with a hot glue gun. Not that it has ever happened to me, you understand. Oh, no.
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Karyn
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Re:Don't you just hate it when...
2012/10/10 08:53:23
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It's a lot quicker to remove than it was to glue solder it on.
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Re:Don't you just hate it when...
2012/10/10 08:56:45
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I did something even stupider than that! I was putting in a patch panel between my "studio" room and the closet to the room adjacent to it so I could use that closet as a vocal booth. I had 2 panels, one for the wall on the studio side and one for the wall on the closet side. each panel had 2 XLR and 2 TRS connectors on them. I soldered 4 cables between the 2 panels...... BEFORE I routed the cable between the walls. 
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Re:Don't you just hate it when...
2012/10/10 08:59:04
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I've got married once and forgot I had to have an apartment and job first 
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Karyn
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Re:Don't you just hate it when...
2012/10/10 09:04:16
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LOL Beag, thank you. I feel much better now. 
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Re:Don't you just hate it when...
2012/10/10 09:12:38
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Karyn
LOL Beag, thank you. I feel much better now.
yep. I felt REALLY stupid. I had to desolder one panel, route the cables thru the wall and then resolder. I was SO mad at myself!
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Karyn
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Re:Don't you just hate it when...
2012/10/10 09:14:37
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There, re-soldered. That wasn't so bad was it? I don't know what all the fuss was about.... and I got a few extra posts in as well
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Re:Don't you just hate it when...
2012/10/10 09:15:45
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Karyn
There, re-soldered. That wasn't so bad was it? I don't know what all the fuss was about....
and I got a few extra posts in as well
not that post count matters....
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Karyn
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Re:Don't you just hate it when...
2012/10/10 09:31:22
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Karyn
There, re-soldered. That wasn't so bad was it? I don't know what all the fuss was about....
and I got a few extra posts in as well
not that post count matters....
Oh no, of course not.
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Re:Don't you just hate it when...
2012/10/10 09:43:03
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Karyn
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There, re-soldered. That wasn't so bad was it? I don't know what all the fuss was about....
and I got a few extra posts in as well
not that post count matters....
Oh no, of course not.
Now, that's a good Soldier keeping post. 
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Re:Don't you just hate it when...
2012/10/10 09:47:27
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More than once here on this end..and in so many different ways....
Soldering.....and then there is the pulling of wire on a job site.... nothing like making a hard wire pull, and popping out 2 ceiling tiles..... pulling the wire to that place..... then completing the second part of the pull from the 2 tiles out location..... only to discover as I am placing all the tiles along the hallway back into the grid, that I accidentally "looped under" the ceiling grid itself and the wire has to come back out to that point....
In the case you mentioned..... black electrical tape would be a choice and an option.
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Re:Don't you just hate it when...
2012/10/10 10:40:45
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Speaking of soldering I wonder how Mooch's snake is werking out? 
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Re:Don't you just hate it when...
2012/10/10 10:45:08
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Remember a year or so ago someone came here asking for help with some XLR thing he was doing in his studio? I think you helped him a lot Karyn. Can't remember how that turned out.
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Re:Don't you just hate it when...
2012/10/10 11:01:03
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I can relate too.
I put my boots on many mornings before I realize
I didn't even have my pants on...then it gets worse...
I find out I need socks and underwoos too.
What kinda upsets me about it is I thought that
was one of the reasons I got married. Well at least
I'm not hungry.
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Re:Don't you just hate it when...
2012/10/10 11:28:22
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Re:Don't you just hate it when...
2012/10/10 14:46:58
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mike_mccue
Arrghhhh. I find soldering so painful on my eyes these days that reading your account curled my toes.
Well, I sure wouldn't solder my eyes then Mike! Yikes that does sound painful! 
Time for all of you to head over to Beyond My DAW!
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