Practice

Practice, if it does not make perfect, at least helps a lot.

Last year, in a long slog, it took me weeks and many mistrials to learn how to make a microthermocouple by welding two 20-micron wires together. (At that thickness it’s so thin it is impossible to feel it if you hold it between your fingers.)

Today I made a micro-thermocouple in a leisurely morning.

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