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Once again, it's time for the FNGT!

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**Once again, it's time for the FNGT!** If you don't know how this works, [click this link](https://fngt.gq/index.php?page=intro). That link will take you to another site to give you some additional information and tell you about some of our off-site features. That's also the site where we will host the weekly guitar threads, should Poal go down. **NOTE:** That site is by invitation only. If you want an invite, and you're a regular participant, then just ask Crazy, or myself. If you do know what's going on, you probably don't need to click that link - but you may want to, to make sure you know of the other features, such as the archive or a separate forum that's invite only. Remember, we are guests here on Poal. Let's act like it. If you're interested in supporting Poal, then [you can donate](https://poal.co/donate).

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LOL My car lift is enviable! It's perfectly acceptable to envy a lift! I envied one. That's why I got one. It has had many hours of use.

I too solder much better than I weld. My first four years in college were as an electronics engineer major with a minor in pure math. It wasn't until grad school that I switched to applied mathematics.

A torch comes in handy!

As for welding, it's mostly about keeping the pool going. I know some great welders. I am not even remotely great - I'm not even good. But... It holds...

I wouldn't count on me welding a trailer hitch - but I'd count on me welding a new mount for a stake on the side of the trailer! I'm somewhere between those skills.

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Haha! That's exactly right! Whenever I get my lift, I'll be using that thing like a whore lol!

Right on! Do you still do any soldering nowadays? I actually just got some new solder tips in the mail today. One of them is this interesting looking angled tip that I think should help me with extremely small pads. I'm trying to resolder the tiny pins on a micro USB port back onto a power distribution board so I'm hoping it'll to do the trick

That sounds like some decent welding skills. Better than mine at least. I only trust myself to weld some sort of paperweight haha

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Get some steel and just keep making welds on the top until you learn to keep your puddle going. That's about as far as I can go. I can also do some gasless MIG welding if I needed to replace parts of the body. I'm not great at either, but I can do them to some extent. I have both a stick welder and a MIG welder - the kind with the flux-core wire.

I don't solder all that much these days. I no longer repair/modify my guitars or amps. If something breaks, even if I can fix it and have time to fix it, I just send it out. If I want a guitar with a certain tone, I'll just buy one. I definitely am not modifying amps or anything anymore. I'm trying to retire, so I've stopped doing some things. In theory, I've been retired since 2007. I just suck at retiring and keep starting new projects or agreeing to help people out.