4. That's great. It's nice to see how it's done with a soldering iron now and then. Honestly, ever since I discovered solder paste in a syringe, I have never gone back to anything else for surface mount. Gloop the stuff on, plop the part onto the gloop and after about 8 minutes in the toaster oven ... DING ... all done.
- Jm ( http://www.oontz.org )
5. ed: I feel your pain. Its very annoying
also, when people talk about 'soddering' instead of soldering it sounds like they're talking about sodomy
Posted at 5:59AM on Jan 9th 2008 by meuro
6. Attention Americans: The L in solder is NOT, I repeat, NOT silent. This has been a Public Service Announcement from the Society For The Prevention of Butchery of the English Language
Posted at 10:02AM on Jan 9th 2008 by flapjackboy
7. He sounds like an australian trying to say 'cider(ing)' :P
great video though
Posted at 11:13AM on Jan 9th 2008 by Edd
8. As a person from England (where English was invented), I can confirm it is pronounced with the L left intact. :)
Posted at 12:01PM on Jan 9th 2008 by Steve Howes
9. Shame he can't pronounce the word though. Curious inventor videos are great on youtube.
I wonder if this is good practice if you want to be a surgeon?
Posted at 12:09PM on Jan 9th 2008 by Ali Raheem
10. Just like many "inventions," language takes on different forms and evolves with the different societies which make use of it.
Please don't confuse the origin as being the correct version. It's just one version of many.
Consider the Spanish speaking countries of the world and their different uses of the language.
If his pronunciation of a word in the video is the only thing you can find wrong with it, I would say give it the exellent rating it deserves.
Very good work.
Posted at 1:15PM on Jan 9th 2008 by hornhighacedeuce
11. @2,6,10:
As an American, I kindly invite you all to "sod off". Both languages may be referred to as English, but anybody who's ever taken a single Anthropology class could tell you that two languages separated by 500+ years of geographical separation will be different. In American English, the proper pronunciation is "sɔdɝ". It may be different for European English, but an Englishman has about as much right criticizing the way Americans pronounce words as we have to criticize the way you call cookies "biscuits".
In other news, great intro!
Posted at 1:36PM on Jan 9th 2008 by Mythgarr
12. Fantastic. I wish I would have had this when I busted the BA chip on a PS2.
Posted at 1:48PM on Jan 9th 2008 by Alec
13. Geez it really pisses some people off when others pronounce a word differently from themselves. They probably should avoid talking to anyone who didn't grow up in their hometown. For their sake, and ours.
Posted at 3:11PM on Jan 9th 2008 by Daniel Goodell
14. Wow -- I guess I never really heard a Brit say solder before -- still don't really care. The video is awesome and I can't wait until I have to SAWDER on a SMC (I'm from new york, that's how we say it... ).
If you'll excuse me, I'm gonna run and get some cawfee. . .
Posted at 4:17PM on Jan 9th 2008 by James
15. who cares how it's pronounced? try enjoying diversity for once, it's what's made america great. one speaks poorly of his people when all he has to offer a world-wide community is merely an argument about another's pronunciation. language issues aside, i quite enjoyed the video. it has compelled me to finally try surface mounting.
and yes, "me is an amerikin".
16. Merriam Webster says it just like he does.
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/audio.pl?solder02.wav=soldering
Posted at 5:27PM on Jan 9th 2008 by greg
17. @ed and meuro:
http://www.languagehat.com/archives/001382.php
http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-sof1.htm
what country are you from?
Posted at 6:43PM on Jan 9th 2008 by Kyle
18. from australia, to be honest i had no idea it was pronounced 'soddering' over there so there you go, guess i'm the douchebag.
it is an excellent video, the guy must have some good fine motor skils.
Posted at 9:25PM on Jan 9th 2008 by ed
19. Drag soldering is by far the best technique. I use it about every other day to solder very fine pitched smt chips. The syringe of paste flux works the best for most things. You can pick one up from digikey.
Posted at 10:48PM on Jan 9th 2008 by allen
20. i'll keep using my hot air knife for these ^_^
Posted at 12:51AM on Jan 10th 2008 by d00m3d
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1. good vid, but the guy saying 'soddering' gets annoying after a while
Posted at 12:18AM on Jan 9th 2008 by ed