Month: September 2026

I’ve had an X-Tronic 5040 XTS soldering station since 2018, possibly longer. It’s been a great unit! I’ve periodically had to replace the iron handle, and recently had to replace the heat gun, as well as the heat gun stand. Each of those parts are $15~$30, so considering the whole station cost $300 new and…

What started out as a very misfortuned PC based off an AIR 486SH motherboard, a 66MHz Intel i486DX2 processor, and 8 MB of RAM, traveled a very bumpy road, fell off a cliff once or twice and managed to clamor its way back up somehow, and eventually became something much stronger! For my latest PC…