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SNAAKE:
Anybody know where I can get one...order online maybe ?? I seen this guy modding ps2 at this local VG place and he uses this really thin iron..its like a pen and I need one just like that.
I asked him where I can get one but since the guy is such a cake hole he said "I dont know" >:(

Thanks in advance !

Effayy:
I saw one at Canadian Tire a few weeks ago.

PedroSilva:
The tip seems to be very thick ...

patrickl:
I bought an SMD soldering set with a 12V soldering iron. This is especially for soldering these surface mounted chips. I used it on my PS2 (and some SMD projects) and it worked like a charm. Was really cheap too (6 euro) I ordered it from a dutch shop, but it shouldn't be hard to find something similar in the US. Wouldn't radio shack sell something like this?

SoundDoc:
I wouldn't even attempt to use one of those for anything more than tinning small wire.
Its a resistance based soldering tool, and from what I hear, your lucky you get 2 or 3 soldering "sessions" about 20 secs a piece on a set of batteries.

Plus, I wouldn't take it anywhere near a circuit board, or IC, or even a led for that matter. If you were to touch two pins of a IC with it, there flows the current, right throught the IC, more likely to smoke it than solder to it.

The one workstation I have that I prefer for most all small soldering is a weller temperature controlled 50W station. (EC 1002 I think). You can find them relatively cheap online, arround $100.00 and you can get quite a few small tips for them. The one I use for smt work is .015" at the tip, and about 1" long.

If your looking at modding ps2's or any other device that requires soldering to individal pins on a smt chip (ps2's especially where you may have 4 or 5 pins in a row that require wires) you need the finest tip you can find, and good temperature control (a illuminated magnifier doesn't hurt either)...

Hope this helps!

SoundDoc

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