I have learned a much from you, i started as a phone mechanic just changing screens and parts, now i also do motherboard repairs that regular phone repair shops doesn't fix. Very glad to know you and to watch youre videos bro👍🏻
A good tip for removing smd caps like that is to use 2 irons. One from each terminal at the same time. Comes right off without breaking leads, no explosions either. lol
If you can reach to the pads with the solder, it's an option. Just be _VERY_ thorough in removing all the old solder from both the cap legs/pads, the receiving pads, and your iron tip, before soldering the cap onto the receiving board! When you mix lead-free (factory solder) with low melt (138°C) bismuth+tin, and then afterwards solder it on with leaded solder, you now get an alloy mix of tin, bismuth and lead. This mixture is extremely brittle, but more importantly, it has a _very_ low melting point. It's basically chipquik, without the indium. It will quickly weaken under normal use, and melt at *94-98°C !* (depending on mix ratio). That's within the higher range but still normal operating temperature of most modern GPUs. To avoid accidentally introducing this weak point to boards you're working on through cross contamination, it's highly adviceable to keep a separate tip cleaner mesh cup, dedicated to cleaning bismuth-containing solders off your tips. And be thorough when you do so. If you do that kind of job _a lot,_ it can be a good idea to keep a couple of separate solder tips dedicated to bismuth and chipquik. Especially if you use a T12 solder tip cartridge type iron, as you can get good knock-offs for under 5 dollars.
Wish i had the boards 'bag of tricks' you have. No luck finding reasonable priced donors so far. Your videos are always entertaining & educational. Thank you. Putting the mechanic short finder on my list of next things to purchase from your store.
I learned that you need a solder sucker to make life easier. Additionally, SMT components will have a set heat tolerance that they have to meet for manufacturing. The solder will always melt before that threshold is met, or the manufacturing process would be impossible. If you have a good hot-air supply, it should closely regulate the output temperature.
Yupp in our tech room we used to have rookies blow bigger caps but they didn’t smell like fireworks it was more like smoke and fish smell it was all part of hands on training and safety because some of the bigger caps can harm you really bad or even kill you if not properly discharged and handled correctly, thanks for letting folks know 👍👍👍🤠🍕
I have seen a simple technique for removing SMD caps from a board - without any heat! Simply grasp the cap with pliers and twist them round quickly, and they will come off the board. I have seen this technique works for the board - when replacing old caps. I am not sure if the caps themselves survive, but it seems to me that if they come off the board, leaving it clean, that there is a chance that they will also be ok - though the connections may need straightening. It is worth a try.
Just realised, you pronounce the word solder correctly! Americans usually have a weird way of saying solder, sounds like soder or, sawder?! Anyway, you say it correctly so congrats from this Brit!
Long time a go i had the 9800 gt nvidia and 5 capacitors blow up...i had a a board and donated the same 5 capacitors and after changin the fan because was fan cooler foult...worked...but we learned that we dont aply hot air to capacitors because heat sensitive and because of that they blow...thank you 😃😃😃
1st wear PPE. (Safety First). 2nd Pay attention on what you are doing. (Memphis law). 3rd Use low melt solder to remove component and solder with lead solder. 4th do not over heat Cap or plastic parts with Hot air. (Eye on your surrounding). 5th Check components for loose leads (Scammer parts). 6th Clean it like a Pro. (Be a professional). 7th If cap pops remove rotten egg smell quickly with fume extractor. 8th Do not be afraid, grasshopper! 9th Follow 1st step... Etc...
L back when I was a kid, I heard a popping sound just like this. The monitor stopped working after. It might be a safe guess that it was a capicator that blew up. Not sure how, but it happened. Scary how loud those things pop.
Do you work while watching the camera feed on the monitor, or is it only for recording and you have a separate stereo/trinocular microscope? How is the delay/latency from real movement on the bench, until you see it on screen?
@@RevAim Thank you. He's made some content on this since then, but I appreciate the feedback. I've used a trinocular microscope since the start at work, but trying to piece together a setup at home. I got a neck injury so a monitor would be preferrable that way, but IIRC he said it was hard and took a long while to get used to working with cam and monitor (doing so all day long for a year I think he said?) so I'm still a bit on the fence about it, because I can't afford both.
i remove these caps with Weller soldering tweezers, or sometimes with Weller WXMP and low melt solder from ChipQuik. And i allways put new caps if i can.
@@mirrored_Its all only about technique and experience and the pads are allways little wider than legs of capacitor. I use chipquik smd291 flux + chipquik low melt solder to do this. i put soldering tweezers on the pads near capacitor legs with usage or flux and low melt solder and do the job easy.
Try to lightly grab them with plyers and twist them like a screw on a donor board Works Amazing Tip i got from Mr. Carlson's Lab I have never had one rip the pads off only twist in one direction
Love your videos friend. Your teaching style contagious. Really enjoy listening to your work. You are creative and resourceful. Plus it helps to have a lot of donor boards :-)
lol, I do watch for the fire works so it didn't surprise me. I watch to see the customer fireworks and hear Alexs' description. Bonus: I get to see what is really inside a capacitor instead of a description. I learned to wear safety glasses when working with capacitors. Out of curiosity, how much noise does a 330 microfarad( μF) capacitor make?
Good morning, smd acid style capacitor dont like heat , and you can use low melt to desolder thru board style capacitor , i have a store order coming to you in a few days.
How do you know that the cup you used was good? It was from used board. I would test it first. You didnt test it. Anyway thank you for the video. I always watch your videos.
If the capacitor is small enough for the hot tweezers to reach both ends of the legs of the capacitor it will be a convenient way to desolder/resolder the capacitor 🤔
Hah! The old pop'a'roo with the cap eh? It without fail makes me jump when that happens. It's interesting to see the uptick in GPU's you're receiving. No surprise though with the crazy prices at the minute.
Things learned: Don't apply heat on those types of capacitors because they will blow up there's other methods to remove them Wear safety glasses because you don't know when a cap can blow and hit your eye😫 Trough hole caps can fit on surface mounted caps
May I ask you sir is it repairable those tiny and capacitors that are around the gpu crystal ? My nvidia quadro p5200 has one missing those tiny caps around it snapped off is it repairable ? I do understand that without them it won’t work ! Thank u
I learnt from this video that we should always be alert when we applying heat on those kinds of capacitor 2nd thing i learnt that we can customise the same value component for our use
I have learned a much from you, i started as a phone mechanic just changing screens and parts, now i also do motherboard repairs that regular phone repair shops doesn't fix.
Very glad to know you and to watch youre videos bro👍🏻
Heat makes caps go boom 💥
yep and stupid oven cooking gpus realy fix the caps let me tell u lol popcorns done
@@mariopic You are true
What we learn in this video?
Leave special jobs for the experts, cause it's cheaper when first try is good!
I learned that you get a lot of bang for your buck from poly caps 💥.
A good tip for removing smd caps like that is to use 2 irons. One from each terminal at the same time. Comes right off without breaking leads, no explosions either. lol
No way to do this when its SMD without exposed pads, just like that one in video
@@mirrored_ blow with hot air from bottom
You can use low melt solder on these caps by desoldering, it works like magic 😎
But really, i used it many times.
If you can reach to the pads with the solder, it's an option. Just be _VERY_ thorough in removing all the old solder from both the cap legs/pads, the receiving pads, and your iron tip, before soldering the cap onto the receiving board! When you mix lead-free (factory solder) with low melt (138°C) bismuth+tin, and then afterwards solder it on with leaded solder, you now get an alloy mix of tin, bismuth and lead. This mixture is extremely brittle, but more importantly, it has a _very_ low melting point. It's basically chipquik, without the indium. It will quickly weaken under normal use, and melt at *94-98°C !* (depending on mix ratio). That's within the higher range but still normal operating temperature of most modern GPUs.
To avoid accidentally introducing this weak point to boards you're working on through cross contamination, it's highly adviceable to keep a separate tip cleaner mesh cup, dedicated to cleaning bismuth-containing solders off your tips. And be thorough when you do so. If you do that kind of job _a lot,_ it can be a good idea to keep a couple of separate solder tips dedicated to bismuth and chipquik. Especially if you use a T12 solder tip cartridge type iron, as you can get good knock-offs for under 5 dollars.
Wish i had the boards 'bag of tricks' you have. No luck finding reasonable priced donors so far. Your videos are always entertaining & educational. Thank you. Putting the mechanic short finder on my list of next things to purchase from your store.
Exploding caps! Been there all too often. Not only the shock as it goes bang but the smell lingers for ages
man those Quick Silver cards looked beautiful
What an awesome way to teach an audience. great lesson and i guess we learned not to use hot air near those type of caps.
To remove SMD caps, I use solder tweezers.
I am electronic engineer....I respect your work and effort.
I desolder these smd caps by aplying heat in each pad at a time and pulling it just a little at a time, if you have patience it works every time
Smart customer. Simple micro solder job but he didn't make things 10x worse by trying to do it himself.
I learned that you need a solder sucker to make life easier. Additionally, SMT components will have a set heat tolerance that they have to meet for manufacturing. The solder will always melt before that threshold is met, or the manufacturing process would be impossible. If you have a good hot-air supply, it should closely regulate the output temperature.
Man do more vid about repairing vga love your video, appreciate it man
Blowing caps off with heat is good for your blood circulations...thanks for the tip ! ; )
Yupp in our tech room we used to have rookies blow bigger caps but they didn’t smell like fireworks it was more like smoke and fish smell it was all part of hands on training and safety because some of the bigger caps can harm you really bad or even kill you if not properly discharged and handled correctly, thanks for letting folks know 👍👍👍🤠🍕
"Look at this. Look. At. This." Love you, man.
What is a capacitor Cap mostly made of?
@@marcuscustodio9274 Metal and paper
@@terminationshock1356 and some chemical
I have seen a simple technique for removing SMD caps from a board - without any heat! Simply grasp the cap with pliers and twist them round quickly, and they will come off the board. I have seen this technique works for the board - when replacing old caps. I am not sure if the caps themselves survive, but it seems to me that if they come off the board, leaving it clean, that there is a chance that they will also be ok - though the connections may need straightening. It is worth a try.
Just realised, you pronounce the word solder correctly! Americans usually have a weird way of saying solder, sounds like soder or, sawder?! Anyway, you say it correctly so congrats from this Brit!
What we learnt is never use hot air on capacitors or else the capacitor will hit you.
I think the real lesson. is to subscribe, because this guy is awesome
very expert job, a lesson on how applied heat to elect. caps and the dangers of it
Long time a go i had the 9800 gt nvidia and 5 capacitors blow up...i had a a board and donated the same 5 capacitors and after changin the fan because was fan cooler foult...worked...but we learned that we dont aply hot air to capacitors because heat sensitive and because of that they blow...thank you 😃😃😃
I wanna see a CPU/graphics chip replacement! That would be so interesting! Awesome video!
You'll never see that. It's neither practical nor economical to do such repair.
It's possible maybe in russia only lol
Caps and hot air don't mix, thanks Mr.H!
I learned to leave it to the professionals to do this sort of stuff!
I learned to be careful with hot air on my caps! 😀
I enjoy doing dabs and watching these. I have no clue what's going on but they are crazy interesting
always to make sure you take your heart medication before applying direct heat to the board when trying to remove an aluminum electrolytic capacitor!
Lmao.
I learnt those caps prefer winter over summer and that through hole caps can be soldered on surface mount pads
1st wear PPE. (Safety First).
2nd Pay attention on what you are doing. (Memphis law).
3rd Use low melt solder to remove component and solder with lead solder.
4th do not over heat Cap or plastic parts with Hot air. (Eye on your surrounding).
5th Check components for loose leads (Scammer parts).
6th Clean it like a Pro. (Be a professional).
7th If cap pops remove rotten egg smell quickly with fume extractor.
8th Do not be afraid, grasshopper!
9th Follow 1st step... Etc...
I like your New thumbnail style, very 👀 catching.
what temperature use to desold components? is a question I have from I started to watch your videos. Great job!
Recently started watching your videos.
Great videos,
Excellent work,
Great teacher 👏
Thankyou for sharing so much 👍
L back when I was a kid, I heard a popping sound just like this. The monitor stopped working after. It might be a safe guess that it was a capicator that blew up. Not sure how, but it happened. Scary how loud those things pop.
just curious why you didn't use solder suction instead of solder wick to easily remove the capacitor from donor board.
Do you work while watching the camera feed on the monitor, or is it only for recording and you have a separate stereo/trinocular microscope? How is the delay/latency from real movement on the bench, until you see it on screen?
@@RevAim Thank you. He's made some content on this since then, but I appreciate the feedback. I've used a trinocular microscope since the start at work, but trying to piece together a setup at home. I got a neck injury so a monitor would be preferrable that way, but IIRC he said it was hard and took a long while to get used to working with cam and monitor (doing so all day long for a year I think he said?) so I'm still a bit on the fence about it, because I can't afford both.
i remove these caps with Weller soldering tweezers, or sometimes with Weller WXMP and low melt solder from ChipQuik. And i allways put new caps if i can.
How you do this wit hot tweezers when pads are not exposed like this one in video?
@@mirrored_Its all only about technique and experience and the pads are allways little wider than legs of capacitor. I use chipquik smd291 flux + chipquik low melt solder to do this. i put soldering tweezers on the pads near capacitor legs with usage or flux and low melt solder and do the job easy.
Have a stock of new caps and reduce the chance of a heart attack 😂
Hi! Good to know. Thank you.
Try to lightly grab them with plyers and twist them like a screw on a donor board Works Amazing Tip i got from Mr. Carlson's Lab I have never had one rip the pads off only twist in one direction
Love your videos friend. Your teaching style contagious. Really enjoy listening to your work. You are creative and resourceful. Plus it helps to have a lot of donor boards :-)
Very nice, shoving the risk with heating.
Safety First Kids!! Thanks for the vid Alex
So why does a capacitor blows up when heated? Is it because that capacitor is a solid capped one and does not have any room for expansion?
doesnt make the 2 legs a short at the cap from the capacitor? or im wrong?
That's what I thought also, and that's why the smd caps have a small insulator on the bottom between the legs and the cap
Never apply heat to capacitors lol ur a great teacher!
You were paying attention.
safety first... :) . 2 days back same incident happen to me. now i know the reason.. your video makes a lot off information. thanks.....
how to scare people watching a microscope feed, that's the leson haha. Great video
lol, I do watch for the fire works so it didn't surprise me. I watch to see the customer fireworks and hear Alexs' description. Bonus: I get to see what is really inside a capacitor instead of a description. I learned to wear safety glasses when working with capacitors. Out of curiosity, how much noise does a 330 microfarad( μF) capacitor make?
Would the cap implode when applying liquid nitrogen? Can you try that? I did not learn enough 😁
Good morning, smd acid style capacitor dont like heat , and you can use low melt to desolder thru board style capacitor , i have a store order coming to you in a few days.
How do you know that the cup you used was good? It was from used board. I would test it first. You didnt test it. Anyway thank you for the video. I always watch your videos.
If the capacitor is small enough for the hot tweezers to reach both ends of the legs of the capacitor it will be a convenient way to desolder/resolder the capacitor 🤔
Hah! The old pop'a'roo with the cap eh? It without fail makes me jump when that happens. It's interesting to see the uptick in GPU's you're receiving. No surprise though with the crazy prices at the minute.
OMG, that was a big explosion under the microscope 😀
Things learned:
Don't apply heat on those types of capacitors because they will blow up there's other methods to remove them
Wear safety glasses because you don't know when a cap can blow and hit your eye😫
Trough hole caps can fit on surface mounted caps
As always....better than factory!
Caps + heat = cheap firework imitation ;) great for new years to get that smell of firework without the actual firework :) good work love your videos!
You the man we gonna do some business for sure
😂😂
Don't heat the capacitor. Nice tip.
Great video,, thanks for the warning, ,, will not forget it
In my openion you should have used low melt solder with soldering iron to get the cap from donor board but you know better the scenario of the case
Why not give heat underneath the plate in relation to the capacitor?
Use of legged caps can save having heat problems.
Helo sir at 0:45 what is the material long pink and black tape on the capacitor? Is it same as thermal paste
Im a fan of u and a technician too ur
from PH.
i did learn alot from you junior boss and thanks for sharing your knowledge with us may god bless you and your family
May I ask you sir is it repairable those tiny and capacitors that are around the gpu crystal ? My nvidia quadro p5200 has one missing those tiny caps around it snapped off is it repairable ? I do understand that without them it won’t work ! Thank u
Low melt solder is magic?
Never use ☄gun on 🧢.
Thanx for Great Video 👍👍
I learned that Mac PCBs are great for donor parts.
😂
Never use hot air on a cap unless it’s from the underside
New subscriber and love your videos very much man. Good content. And learned.. best leave to the pros.
I learnt to be prepared when watching your videos 🤣
I learnt from this video that we should always be alert when we applying heat on those kinds of capacitor 2nd thing i learnt that we can customise the same value component for our use
Preheater might be good for removing these(turned up really high), they look like a nightmare to work with. Great video as always👍
Point to be noted "Don't heat the capacitors" And also safety first .
Be cerfull the extremely high temperature creates a high pressure inside the condenser, which leads to its explosion.
it's good to create some silicone caps to protects capacitors and connectors from heat
Dont use hot air in electrolytic caps, but use safety goggles if you do.
Can you tell me the thickness of the thermal pads on this card please?
hey thanks for your video, i have my gtx 1070, it has no display, still waiting to fix it here in Philippines,.
Video time 0:29 about device make model ..where you find that information ?
I learn that eye protection is important. Is that right?
4:05 Damn that caught me off guard ,HAHAHAAH..
ONE THING I HAVE LEARNED FROM THIS VIDEO IS NEVER TRY TO REPAIR ANY ELECTRONICS ITEM UNTIL AND UNLESS YOU WATCH NORTRIDGE FIX FIXING IT.😜😜😀😀😁
The same thing happened on my gtx 1070, luckily the card still worked without it.
Can a mosfet that popped and caught smoke be repaired?
So low melt solder is not leaded?
hello, where can i see the location chart or, lists, of components . "device make\model..."
I love the smell of fireworks
yea, thats why i dont use the caps on gpu donor boards. cause it gets me everytime and the caps usually aren't some obscure value or brand.
Very nice work
Bro I'm working in electronics field.....when the cap blown I remembered about my first time blowing a cap ...it scared the crap out of me...😂😂
If you want fireworks but don’t have crackers then don’t worry, just heat up some big capacitors 😂😂😂
Factory is always best🤖
Never mixed heat gun with capacitor together 💥 🤯
electrolytic capacitor