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Have you heard of the Ten Soldering Commandments? In truth, they’re actually more like guidelines than commandments. But if you heed them, it will go well with your solder joints, your children’s solder joints, and your children’s children’s solder joints. So let it be written; so let it be done.

1 Thou shalt wear eye protection whenever thou solderest, lest thy get molten solder in thine eye.

2 Thou shalt not touch the heated end of thy soldering iron, lest thy burn thyself.

3 Thou shalt not fashion molten solder into false globs.

4 Thou shalt wash thy hands after thou solderest, to remove vile lead contamination from upon thy hands before thou eatest.

5 Thou shalt provide bright illumination upon thine objects which thou solderest, that thou might see clearly the way unto which the solder may be applied.

6 Thou shalt not spill thy excess solder upon thy neighbor’s pad lest thy create unintended pathways through which current may flow.

7 Thou shalt not leave thine hot soldering iron unattended.

8 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s professional-grade temperature-controlled soldering station.

9 Thou shalt not apply solder directly upon thine soldering iron, but shalt instead apply solder to the objects which thou solderest, that their heat may melteth thy solder.

10 Thou shalt always place thine hot soldering iron in a suitable holder.