{"id":3928,"date":"2011-04-23T04:29:33","date_gmt":"2011-04-23T09:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/?p=3928"},"modified":"2015-09-26T11:10:59","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T18:10:59","slug":"youre-doing-it-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/youre-doing-it-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"You’re doing it wrong."},"content":{"rendered":"

From our friends in Russia<\/a> comes this reminder that one should not take our instructions to “hold the soldering iron in your dominant hand, like you would hold a pencil” too literally.<\/p>\n

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From our friends in Russia comes this reminder that one should not take our instructions to “hold the soldering iron in your dominant hand, like you would hold a pencil” too literally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[384],"class_list":["post-3928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-solder-comic"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pioCd-11m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3029,"url":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/the-original-oscilloscope-tetris\/","url_meta":{"origin":3928,"position":0},"title":"The ‘original’ oscilloscope Tetris","author":"Jeff","date":"August 20, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"One of my electronics labs in college had a few of these scopes (Agilent 54600B). 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