Assorted Toys
Oct. 12th, 2025 10:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
billroperA friend is coming by later this week to work on my pinball machine and (with any luck) get it working again after six years of lying fallow. He asked if I had a soldering iron.
Well, I *have* a soldering iron. *Finding* the soldering iron is another matter altogether.
Tonight, I ransacked the laundry room where the tool shelf sits, hunting for my soldering iron.
I didn't find it. But on the floor, I found an old Archer soldering iron, still attached to its card. I'm going to assume that it works. But there was no solder to be found there.
I went to look in the studio. I threw away several cable envelopes that should have departed a while ago and eventually discovered a spool of solder.
But still no soldering iron. Why the solder was there and the soldering iron wasn't bothers me.
Not enough to keep looking though.
In other news, the low tire pressure light on my dash went off on the way home from the baseball game on Thursday night. This led to my looking for a reasonable place to put air in your tires, which is rather more of a problem than it used to be.
Last night, I gave up and ordered a battery-powered air compressor.
Today, my tires are full.
And I have an air compressor for the next time this happens.
Well, I *have* a soldering iron. *Finding* the soldering iron is another matter altogether.
Tonight, I ransacked the laundry room where the tool shelf sits, hunting for my soldering iron.
I didn't find it. But on the floor, I found an old Archer soldering iron, still attached to its card. I'm going to assume that it works. But there was no solder to be found there.
I went to look in the studio. I threw away several cable envelopes that should have departed a while ago and eventually discovered a spool of solder.
But still no soldering iron. Why the solder was there and the soldering iron wasn't bothers me.
Not enough to keep looking though.
In other news, the low tire pressure light on my dash went off on the way home from the baseball game on Thursday night. This led to my looking for a reasonable place to put air in your tires, which is rather more of a problem than it used to be.
Last night, I gave up and ordered a battery-powered air compressor.
Today, my tires are full.
And I have an air compressor for the next time this happens.