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... since I last lifted up a soldering iron, but it's just like riding a bicycle!
Provided you remember which is the hot end. Hint: This is wrong.[^]
My mouse has been getting iffy - it releases sometimes while drag and dropping, double clicks when I single click, you know the kind of thing. Trouble is, it's a Logitech Trackman, and they don't make 'em any more. The newer model I don't find as comfortable (as well as being £80) and is wireless, which I don't like either. I like wired keyboard and mice so the cat can't remove them.
So it's replace the microswitch time. Buy 5 switches from Amazon on Prime next day (£4 for Omron ones), open it up (4 screws), detach the PCB (two clips, one spring), solder suck 3 joints, replace switch, solder three joints, reassembly is the reversal of disassembly.
About 5 minutes in total. Works fine!
So ... something has gone properly today, which makes a nice change.
How's your day going?
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Satisfying to do something like that, isn't it.
And you remind me: I must buy a solder sucker.
modified 18-Jun-19 9:04am.
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markrlondon wrote: I must buy a solder sucker.
It's so much less hassle than that stupid braid ... I always end up soldering that stuff to the PCB ... 
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Yep once you get the hang of soldering you don't lose it.
I've been up since 3am, couldn't sleep working in the Nextion Editor - Nextion[^] to learn how to use a Nextion display. Ordered 2 of them for a project I'm working on and they provide a TFT with touch screen that an MCU can communicate with over UART. Has a simple language of it';s own and is pretty dang nifty! Right now am working with the simulator until I get the actual devices!
Give me coffee to change the things I can and wine to accept the things I cannot!
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The last time I got the soldering (US: "soddering") iron out was last week, to fix a Minions hand-soap dispenser, which had stopped giggling when the plunger was pressed.
You've got to take care of the important thing in life, y'know.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Which type is it? With the rolly thing in the middle or on the side?
(searching for "Trackman" brings up both types of trackball)
I'm considering getting one but not sure which is less likely to cause RSI
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I'll probably try a similar one then (whatever is available locally, wireless is fine for me due to the absence of cats  ), my regular mouse is getting painful to use
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OriginalGriff wrote: it's a Logitech Trackman... so the cat can't remove them.
Your cat can haul off a trackman?
Is your "cat" perhaps a stray that you found on the back porch maybe?
Florida man gets cozy with his pet cougar[^]
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Our cat can haul off a side of bacon, or tow away a whole chicken. A trackman or a keyboard wouldn;t be a problem for him.
Heck, I've seen how far he can throw a large, dead rat without the benefit of opposable thumbs! 
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I'm proud to say that I installed a LED floodlight with sensor on our shed today, not without an incident: cut myself in the finger with a cut-off knife while stripping electrical wire.
That's what you get when you try to place the floodlight as high as possible and have to stand on a ladder 
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Mhhh,
I have been using the new wireless model for about a year now and it works pretty well.
The only thing I don't like about it is the relative small ball, my previous Logitech marble ball types had a ball that is about twice the size of the current one and that was simply more comfortable.
Other than that: it certainly works much better than a standard mouse.
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That's an interesting picture.
I counted the errors and ended up with five (at least).
How many do you see?
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OriginalGriff wrote: How's your day going?
My arm muscles are so shaky from pounding in fencing posts (and I only did 6!!!) that I can hardly type! I need to start lifting weights.
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Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Tip: make holes for the Poles and use quick cement 
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Oh yes! Postcrete - ready mixed, you put water in first, add the mix and walk away ...
There are those that swear by Metposts, but I find them a pain - they hit a rock (and we have a lot of them) and the stop dead, or they twist going in and the posts don't line up properly.
I still have my post mallet to remind me why I never use it ...
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I have an old iron metpost lying about that I use to make holes for poles as I don't have an earth drill
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Between 4 and 5 hours of garden work and around 20 minutes trying to refill the nylon of the grass trimer with a newer and dicker one (last one was breaking every few steps and I got almost nothing done)
M.D.V. 
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I'll bet sitting on a solderein g iron isn't the same as sitting on a bicycle. Please be sure to file a report on that comparison!
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Oh, I dunno - the seat is about the same width and level of comfort ...
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Many month later (on the home project) still on the curve operation algorithm..
Thought I nailed it with shape-shape intersection, but it turns out Union is causing me more grief...
I find it hard to continue... sigh...   
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Maybe give yourself a week or two off the project.
It's not rare that inspiration strikes when I have some distance from a knotty problem I am trying to solve.
When you come back to it you might find the solution falls into place
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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GuyThiebaut wrote: Maybe give yourself a week or two off the project.
It's not rare that inspiration strikes when I have some distance from a knotty problem I am trying to solve.
When you come back to it you might find the solution falls into place
Yeah, I often find that when I make no progress, if I stop working on the project for a week or two,. I quite often find no reason to progress further.
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Comport Computing
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