Gifts for steampunks

By at 6:20 am Thursday, Dec 11

Jake von Slatt sez, "Make: Blog was very kind to ask me back for another year of The Steampunk Gift Guide. These are 'gifts for the Steampunk' rather then 'Steampunk gifts.'"

Lenk Butane Torch and Soldering Iron

Price: $49.99
Buy: Wall Lenk Store - Link

These are my two Lenk torches. To the left is an alcohol-fired torch that's probably 50-75 years old. I occasionally use it to heat-shrink tubing, but it's difficult to maintain and liable to seriously burn you if you are not careful with it.

To the right is my Lenk LSP-180 combination soldering iron and mini-torch. It's one of my very favorite tools and I use it a for soldering wire connections in soldering iron mode and for heating and soldering brass and copper shapes in torch mode.

Steampunk Gift Guide - 2008 (Thanks, Jake!)

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Cory Doctorow

Upcoming appearances

* Feb 9, 2012, DeKalb, IL: Day of Doctorow, NIU
* Feb 10-12, 2012, Chicago, IL: Capricon 32
* Feb 13, 2012, Arlington, TX: UT Arlington College of Engineering Distinguished Speaker Series
* Feb 16, 2012, Victoria, BC: 13th Annual Privacy and Security Conference

Recent books:
* Context (essays)
* With a Little Help (short stories)
* For the Win (YA novel)
* Makers (adult novel)

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