Bravo good sir! As someone who regularly repairs electronics, you did a fine job. My only advise would be to use Flux gel the next time you find yourself needing to do this and perhaps a more appropriate soldering iron that could allow for more precision and temperature control. But the flux really helps with preventing adjacent solder joints from bridging, as well as allowing it to flow into the joint itself much more easily (just be sure to clean the board off afterwards with some 90%+ isopropyl alcohol and a soft bristle brush, flux can be hella corrosive if left on the solder joints). I saw another comment mention solder wick, but the truth is that there is always a debate between suckers vs wick and I say that it's preference for whatever the specific task is.
This is all awesome info thanks!! Love learning about new stuff. And this was 100% my first attempt at a repair like this. Appreciate all the feedback and suggestions!
@@AtlanticBuilt I couldn't agree more with the learning new stuff! I volunteer a lot of my free time at my local makerspace to help folks learn new skills and to hone my own skills as I go. For that being your first attempt ever at replacing an onboard component, you did fantastic. Probably helps quite a bit that your welding experience translates over pretty solidly. With that said, I sincerely appreciate the content from folks such as yourself! This video in particular shifted my mindset on what to keep an eye out for in the future (a welder is on my short-list of things I'll be needing this year).
I was thinking the same thing. One thing I would add is to use the iron to heat the joint and let the joint melt the solder... but could have also been the camera angle that made it look like it?
@@edmacmaster yeah I'll be the first to admit the camera angle sucked. Sorry about that lol my tripod doesn't have a tilt feature so I was real limited there lol
@@edmacmasterIf he had been using a more standard iron with a more precise tip, yeah. Heating the joint is absolutely the way to do it. However, given the iron he was using was likely way hotter than ~400c and had significant thermal mass, I think the way he did it actually prevented damage to the board and its surrounding components. Genuinely surprised none of the plastic bits on the rotary pot melted.
I had the blue one before the yellow one, I liked it better only due to the adjustments, post flow being one of them. I do like the current one though, it's nice for the price.
I feel.like.i had that machine aswell, it's got like that little graph type thing across the front of the machine? And the foot pedal dial works backwards? Lol
@@instantninja1 right on. Yes it's weird how they didn't keep all those settings with this new machine. It is much more user friendly, and much nicer feeling as far as ergonomics of the torch and pedal stuff goes though. Like you said still a good value.
Bravo good sir! As someone who regularly repairs electronics, you did a fine job. My only advise would be to use Flux gel the next time you find yourself needing to do this and perhaps a more appropriate soldering iron that could allow for more precision and temperature control. But the flux really helps with preventing adjacent solder joints from bridging, as well as allowing it to flow into the joint itself much more easily (just be sure to clean the board off afterwards with some 90%+ isopropyl alcohol and a soft bristle brush, flux can be hella corrosive if left on the solder joints). I saw another comment mention solder wick, but the truth is that there is always a debate between suckers vs wick and I say that it's preference for whatever the specific task is.
This is all awesome info thanks!! Love learning about new stuff. And this was 100% my first attempt at a repair like this. Appreciate all the feedback and suggestions!
@@AtlanticBuilt I couldn't agree more with the learning new stuff! I volunteer a lot of my free time at my local makerspace to help folks learn new skills and to hone my own skills as I go. For that being your first attempt ever at replacing an onboard component, you did fantastic. Probably helps quite a bit that your welding experience translates over pretty solidly.
With that said, I sincerely appreciate the content from folks such as yourself! This video in particular shifted my mindset on what to keep an eye out for in the future (a welder is on my short-list of things I'll be needing this year).
I was thinking the same thing. One thing I would add is to use the iron to heat the joint and let the joint melt the solder... but could have also been the camera angle that made it look like it?
@@edmacmaster yeah I'll be the first to admit the camera angle sucked. Sorry about that lol my tripod doesn't have a tilt feature so I was real limited there lol
@@edmacmasterIf he had been using a more standard iron with a more precise tip, yeah. Heating the joint is absolutely the way to do it.
However, given the iron he was using was likely way hotter than ~400c and had significant thermal mass, I think the way he did it actually prevented damage to the board and its surrounding components. Genuinely surprised none of the plastic bits on the rotary pot melted.
I had the blue one before the yellow one, I liked it better only due to the adjustments, post flow being one of them.
I do like the current one though, it's nice for the price.
I feel.like.i had that machine aswell, it's got like that little graph type thing across the front of the machine? And the foot pedal dial works backwards? Lol
@@AtlanticBuilt yeah I believe so, it was apparently the same internally as a thermal arc 185.
@@instantninja1 right on. Yes it's weird how they didn't keep all those settings with this new machine. It is much more user friendly, and much nicer feeling as far as ergonomics of the torch and pedal stuff goes though. Like you said still a good value.
I knew I should have gone back and grabbed that welder at the scratch and dent sale 😂
Get some solder wick instead it feel it works better.
Will try that on the next one! I've never heard of that before! Thanks!
I am dissapointed you didn't sit on it 😂
LOL