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I am a terrible solderer
dabone:
I wear old jeans, and wipe off the tip every 2 or 3 joints I make.
(Actually most of my jeans have the stripes on the upper right leg..)
This is a pic of the iron I use, not too expensive, but go ahead and get a small round, not a spade tip like it comes with.
I have used this setup for doing monitors, pcbs, pinball pcbs, xbox 28 pin mods, ps1's, and anything else I can think of.
That iron and a cheap solder sucker from radioshack will get 99% of all soldering needs done.
(Unless of course you need to get into smt..)
p.s. for cleaning the surfaces of what you are working on, very fine sand paper works, or I often use the needle tips of my multimeter to scrape away to the clean metal underneath the corossion.
(These are tips made to puncture through the insulation of a wire, not the standard large tips)
Later,
dabone
MrSaLTy:
If you do a google search for solder tutorial you will get a lots of hits... there are some real good tutorials for someone just learning to solder. Try to find the thinest solder you can as it is MUCH easier to work with. I put the tip right into the crack between the pad and the leg of the resistor etc that i am soldering and then push the tip of the solder right between then.... it melts and fills the space. Once you get better at it this will take about 2 seconds. Not long enough to damage anything.... although its still a good idea to use sockets for an IC's you are soldering.
Hoagie_one:
--- Quote from: HarumaN on December 23, 2004, 02:44:14 pm ---I have found that it is easier to de-solder with braid.
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Timstuff:
My dad handled all the soldering for my mouse hack. He uses that braided copper material, puts it ontop of one of the soldered connections, and places the solder iron on it so that the solder will melt and be "soaked up" by the braid. I can't remember the specific name of the material, but I'm sure someone has already said it. Also, be very careful about where you touch with the iron! If you aren't careful, you could burn a circuit on the board and cause it to lift, thus making it useless. This happened to us while making the mouse hack on our last circuit, but fortunately we were able to use a multimeter to trace the circuit's source on the PCB and solder it there instead.
My Dad's an engineer so he's quite familiar with soldering stuff. But I'm sure that once you know the techniques you'll be able to get good at it after a little practice.
cholin:
--- Quote ---He uses that braided copper material, puts it ontop of one of the soldered connections, and places the solder iron on it so that the solder will melt and be "soaked up" by the braid. I can't remember the specific name of the material, but I'm sure someone has already said it.
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Ohh, this one's hard, umm, Desoldering Braid? ;D You almost said it in your description. ;D
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