Ugh..i love soldering..but desolder..thanks to the flux gods that vakuum desolder guns exist. They are worth every penny. There are also cheaper ones that work like the normal manual thumb pump just with a hot tip (also worth their few bucks but more maintence needed), but the type you showed, the real gun..ahh chefs kiss. Strip a mainboard naked in no time. Really good job you did there, mate! Wish i still had my old C64. Who would have thought that old tech of our time become so precious with age (save your playstations kids..you'll regret to have dump them in 2090)...glad i still have all my sega/nintendo stuff in great condition and saved 4 big CRT Tv's and some monitors from certain death on a landfill. Even still have boxes full of old games in their packaging in really good condition..probably worth quite a penny..but the hell no greedy "collector" will get them. 😂
Nice Dedication to a awesome machine
Well done! I wish I had my vic20 and c64 still with me. It was dumped by a colleague at my company some 20 years ago 😶😶
Ugh..i love soldering..but desolder..thanks to the flux gods that vakuum desolder guns exist. They are worth every penny. There are also cheaper ones that work like the normal manual thumb pump just with a hot tip (also worth their few bucks but more maintence needed), but the type you showed, the real gun..ahh chefs kiss. Strip a mainboard naked in no time.
Really good job you did there, mate! Wish i still had my old C64. Who would have thought that old tech of our time become so precious with age (save your playstations kids..you'll regret to have dump them in 2090)...glad i still have all my sega/nintendo stuff in great condition and saved 4 big CRT Tv's and some monitors from certain death on a landfill. Even still have boxes full of old games in their packaging in really good condition..probably worth quite a penny..but the hell no greedy "collector" will get them. 😂
I did end up getting the Hakko desoldering gun 😂
Thanks! I hope people will continue to appreciate this old tech and keep it preserved, but we'll see.
Nice explanation! 🤣
Same story with my PC-XT which my late father bought with loan against our house!
I am trying my level best to repair it.
That must be what you need that 44256 DRAM tester for
@@TrevorMakes yes and it worked great