Alex is a very experienced professional. I have been soldering electronics for years and would not even attempt some of what he does. Unbelievable, how easy he makes it look.
Alex is right. I used to use an all in one station and struggled but invested in a JBC soldering iron and an Atten hot air station and it was a big game changer. It allowed me to work quicker and be more precise. The jobs are now much easier to do compared to when i had the all in one system.
As someone learning to solder on PCBs (older GPUs currently), your channel has been infinitely more valuable than all of the other big tech youtubers combined. Subbing.. you've earned it. Thank you.
I saw Jay’s video and thought he tried hard. This video was impressive. I didn’t know much about the tools, flux, and solder that is needed today. Thank you.
Great demo show today! I have to tell you that I made my own pin straightener by taking a very small hollow tube made of aluminum and then placing it over the bent pin and angling it back to the up right position which bends the pin back to straight. It is quick and easy to do. The hole or inside diameter of the tube fits perfectly over the pins with little play making it easy to bend them straight. I do heat the pins first but not to the point of melting the solder at the base so as get a more pliable result putting less stress on the metal.
I did replaced a few days ago 2 broken pins from a Amd ryzen cpu,with hot air station and thanks to Alex by watching his videos , i had a successful process! Thank you Alex for all your shares! You and big boss are awesome!
I've learned so much from this video. I struggled a lot with my soldering iron because solder won't stick to it or just partially, and I had no idea why. Guess I have to invest into a better quality iron and tip. Thanks a lot for this video, very insightful.
If your iron is that bad, you will be thrilled when you get a better iron. When solder doesn't want to stick, heat won't transfer to the workpiece well, so it makes heating up what you want to solder real hard... Sometimes impossible.
I have a very cheap china soldering station with a very cheap soldering tip. The tip was ok and the solder stuck to it very well until the wires fell off the temp sensor. The tip started to glow and the solder never stuck to it again. The coating of the soldering tips breaks down due to too much heat and the wrong type of solder. I really tried a lot, but nothing led to success. Since i didn't have no other soldering tip, i sanded the soldering tip down to the copper. That was 3 years ago and the tip still works very well to this day.
@@sulcusulnaris Nah some of the chinesium tips are just trash. If his tip ever worked properly, I am pretty sure he would have realized there was something wrong with it. I bought a cheap chinese soldering station back in the day, the tips that came with it worked just fine. But I bought some replacement tips off aliexpress and they were like solder repellents. He probably needs better tips.
A lot of elitism in these comments, but i think most of them are missing the point of Jay's video. Jay's perspective is that of a hobbyist, probably closer to what any of us would experience trying the repair with reasonably attainable equipment. You can't really compare his attempt to that of a professional with access to thousands of dollars of equipment doing the repair.
I bought everything you use for my micro soldering business and everything works fantastic! Tried going cheap on soldering tips once but threw them in the garbage
I’ve never seen a multi purpose billiard table before but your description is quite accurate 😂 you are right tools made for that kind of a job (micro soldering) should totally accurate otherwise you’ll be left out with a crapshoot job
I doubt I'll ever realistically need to do anything remotely like this (although I'd love to!) I've managed to brick my motherboard, so going to attempt to rewrite to the chip, searching for methods eventually led me to this channel, the rabbit hole began😂 I find these videos so informative and entertaining. Thank you for sharing the knowledge and education.
Don't be fooled, the skill, practice, steady hands, material knowledge, electronic component knowledge, chemistry, thermal properties of components, solder, pcb, flux, the knowledge how to use what and when is very important. I haven't mentioned tools yet and that's on purpose, without the above tools are nearly useless. While the other channels mentioned are competent system builders but are beginners at repair at microscopic and electronics level. NF has demonstrated that distinction very well.
It's a shame Jay and Linus don't take the time to view other great TH-cam content creators such as NorthbridgeFix. Computers and Electronics have a vast array of different avenues and applications than just hardware reviews. This channel is a Godsend to those who prefer to tinker and fix new or old items. What school would you attend or have the time in your busy career to learn just one aspect of electronic repair? Thank you for all the free lessons.
If you were tech enthusiast, I don't think they are good for you, most tech channel right now sadly has just become advertising company. Once you see it you just can't unsee it.
Linus manages 80 employees and is the face of his conpany and is the host the majority of the time. Jay manages a few employees but is also the face of his company. They're doing pretty good in the real world when they've been around for roughly 10 years.
Actually, He has been doing this for years, as his procedures and practiced hand movements reveal. I am unsure of how much theory he has, but he does understand the underlying rules of how to handle and protect these tiny components, as he says can go "to the 9th Dimension". Love your channel and the methodologies you use. Congrats on building a business for the family to share in! Thank you, Alex! 😁🙂👍👍👍
Up until last week, I thought I had the best tweezers, a set of Bergeon's... then on a whim the week before after being given the nod I bought for £3.50 a pair of dental surgery tweezers, made by an English company called Medentra... the bigger locking ones have very grippy tips which for holding screws about the size of them cpu pins is a game changer, the other set in the kit are ultra ultra fine, extremely fine tips never seen 'em that thin before and both surgical stainless steel and has made such a difference to doing my watches. Sometimes you can spend absolute fortunes on the heartell of others and find instead a diamond in the rough like these Medentra's, many of my watch friends have now bought some and agreed they are absolutely awesome tweezers :)
I have to agree your microscope is the best I've seen on TH-cam repair channels. High definition and great detail and colour. Dept of field is very good also
I like that he isn't throwing hate towards jayztwocents. The fact Jay tried but like he said Jay isn't an expert. These experts have the tech and the patience to do these tasks
I think it can be helpful when non-experts attempt expert work. Watching them fail can remind viewers that the work they were attempting is very difficult. You are an excellent expert in your field, carrying excellent equipment (as this video explains). The trouble with videos like those on your channel is that people see you making very difficult jobs look simple, which makes them think they could do it too. It is easy to forget how much expertise you have! I watch your videos as entertainment. I used to repair computers before I fell ill. I have a sound background in electronics. I have enough sense to recognise that the work you do requires considerable expertise. I know if I was to attempt it, I would fail miserably. I am not sure I'd have the patience or attention to detail to do your job. If I wanted to, I could try, but I recognise I'd need a lot of practice. If I was still in buisiness, I'd be more inclined to subcontract such work to someone like yourself rather than attempt it myself. My expertise lies in software. I shall stay within my field of expertise, and admire your work in your field of expertise.
I agree with what you said completely. The real problem is providing a solid balance between showing viewers that it's not a dream but very possible for them to purchase and learn to do the same work, but at the same time realize they will not be immediately successful. You have to put in the time to practice and fail more often at the start but with persistence they could eventually rival even Alex on this channel!
Yes, it is not only the tools and equipments, the experience and your brain should work together Alex is doing great Bcoz i too worked in an SMD plant With state of the art technology
يعطيك العافية اليكس، انا اقدر الفيديوات اللي تشرح اخطاء شائعة من المبتدئين. دائما تعطي نصائح مفيدة، حتى لو ما عندي اي فكرة عن الالكترونيات. نتعلم منك ال reversed engineering. Ur tips are always pricesless. الله يوفقك و يرزقك من رزقه الكريم
True a good soldering station makes work so much better. Had a cheap soldering iron and fixed my work just by upping my soldering iron to a good solder station with great tips.
Ya when I started soldering. I did start with a all in 1 soldering station. Sucks until.i bought expensive good tools. Now I'm the man on any solder job
I saw Jayz's video in my feed but i knew that it will be bad and didnt watch it. Cant do it either, iam just getting my tools together and iam just at the 286 pc motherboard kind of micro soldering. I have a good solderin station but its not good for varta battery damage so i bought a solder sucking station, not the best but works, tried manual pump and solder wick but that didnt work for battery damage. Needed flux and more solder and good suction to get parts off the board. Did do hirosima with my xbox360 because of no good vision of the board but later i will fix it. Tools are so important, heat and vision is the needed parts. Thanks i have learned a lot from these videos!
NorthridgeFix is the master micro soldering guy! Thank you again for making editing and posting your videos! I always buy my tools and equipment from NorthridgeFix!
I've watched many of your videos Alex and I must admit you are master especially with the soldering iron, I have watched others do soldering and I'm no expert but some of them to my mind don't do a good job and a lot of them look messy when finished. Thank you again your explanation on this was spot on, you shown us the right and wrong way, you are a top man Alex.
First electronic repair channel I seen is when LouisRossman had his colorful take on Linus' "gpu repair" by putting it in the oven. Nice to see more channels like this.
jayzTwoCents first board repair attempt his soldering was so bad he attached a component to the board with glue and it worked and the whole internet cringed. So he has come leaps and bounds with acquiring decent tools etc. he learned what flux is etc. he has learned enough to have an appreciating for whats involved.
Alex can easily become a surgeon. His hands don't shake at all and he can do that without even watching the circuits. He is watching the monitor which make this process even tougher...!
to be fair too, jay is more into pc building and such and not repairing components, i think jay did a good job as first try. for someone like Northridgefix that does this a ton more on daily basis its alot easier compared to someone that just tried it first time
I bend some pins on my cpu because it was stuck on the cooler and ripped of the socket. Saw once a video where you rebend pins. What can i say. Fixed. Somehow i felt encouraged through you
Just leaving this here for mistake prevention : before removing a CPU cooler you wanna melt the thermal compound a bit by leaving the PC running for a few minutes to prevent cooler sticking.
@@Kheops. can also heat it from the top; the heatsink can steadily absorb heat from a flame (like a flame from a jet lighter is the easiest, remove the plastic fan from the heatsink, then direct the fire from a jet lighter downward onto the heatsink).
Yes having good tools is obviously the better way to go but i think if you just wanna play around with it or want to learn it whilst having very little money youll have to look at cheaper options. A professional should of course be using great tools and spare no expenses but i feel like maybe a better concept for this video wouldve been to use something like his setup and show how you would do it while constricted by the bad tools and trying to do the jobe despite their low quality. If you have a crappy statation laying around maybe do a part 2 of this video to show us how you would do that under the circumstances he was in
You are right,i have a 3 in one station and just like to mess around with old laptops for FUN? Just to see if i have the ability to do something useful beside repairing cars and antique watches.I've had cataract surgery on both eyes and can tell you SEEING WHAT YOU ARE WORKING ON is the most important thing ,at least for me.ALEX has the best microscope setup i have ever seen to do the job.And the price while not cheap is a very good value !!! While you can buy scopes for 1/3 the price ,i think you would not be happy.I'm glad my EYE surgeon bought the best microscopic eyepieces>>>haha I like learning from the best and so far Alex is at the very top of a short list.He shows the right way to do jobs,thanks alex.
I love your videos! You really out here teaching people. I want to start repairing stuff myself. Maybe not expensive stuff or super small things at first, just for fun. I bought a soldering iron a month ago and i started trying repairing old gpu fan cables and tried to solder back cables on to the fan hub, but i did not have flux and i believe that made it more difficult so definitely gonna buy that and see the difference.
Absolutely love your material! You've been quite an inspiration to me and my technicians, leading us to tinker and practice with more things to hone our skills. Keep the content coming!
@JayzTwoCents this video will help you tremendously in your cpu endeavours, alex is my goto guy when I need tips on how to repair something and has helped me no end
Alex a big advantage towards you when you solder is always the microscope. I have everything to solder and I could do a decent job, and yes most of the equipment I use I buy it from your store, but one thing I don't have is the microscope cause I can't afford it. I use a phone with good camara zoom and a stand and I get the job done. I have replace HDMI's, USB C chargers and various chips/mosfets and I'll do small microscopic components that I feel comfortable in replacing. I only do this for myself and family.
The more I watch your videos, and other technicians as well, more I get impressed with your skills, and more I think that I dont have the motion control required for this and I'll gladly play for a professional to do this for me if I need it one day. Altough I have a broken Xbox Series controller and I'm kinda tempted to open it and see if I can fix it, a stiff left analog and sticky A and B buttons.
I like and wtch your videos all the time, Alex. I learned a lot from them and I am learning from them every time. I check every day if you posted any new videos or not. Even though without these videos, you would have more time to fix stuff brought into the shop. Your time wasted on these videos is much appreciated :)
I have never done anything like this before, and know absolutely nothing about cpu pins or resistors and soldering and flux or any of it. But man was that interesting. I think I kind of want to learn more about this stuff and how to do it.
Linus is a complete moron but I love Jay’s videos but Jay is more of a carpenter than an electrician so this isn’t his forte so I expected him to fail miserably lol. Your videos are really insightful and you don’t waste time, really love this stuff, thanks for making them.
Hi, your repair videos are inspiring. I am curious though, what is the success rate for repairing? Are there cases where you found where the product arrived irreparable?
Not hating on Jay, but as soon as i saw his attempt video. I was "hoping" Alex would happen to take a look at it and do a video on it. I have zero skills in soldering, so its always very very satisfying to watch alex do some of his "better than factory" work lol.
You are not a micro-soldering expert either, but you are a great connector soldering guru 😅 When I'm going to see you rebolling something, or grounding and fixing cracked pcb?
I feel same as you Alex, I'm working 13 broken pins of ryzen 7 pro 4750g yesterday and it's hard to work if the twister is not good. But I'm longing the same working station as you are using with 😊
Grabbed a pin off an Athlon 64 since had so many of them in stock for a Ryzen CPU, and it worked fine. Pin had same diameter but was just longer. Did have a few bad Ryzen processors but recycled them so didn't have bad spares.
I've replaced a few CPU pins with a pencil iron. The tip was all copper (one of those cheap crap irons) that I made into a real skinny cone tip with a file. The tip was completely ruined but it was enough to solder the pins, plus the cheap iron was a throw away unit anyway.
Enjoy your work and diligence too it, SAD NOTE, wish I had got into this part of hardware repair when younger as the hands I'm guessing need some training for such finer detail. Great Video as always! Peace
Learning so much yet I swear I always run into more questions! I do plan to order some flux and tweezers from yall because I did order cheap amazon ones and well... the flux is hard to apply and extremely sticky and the tweezers I keep having to reshape.. I was doing a test board and one of the semiconductors on 1 side 3 pins touch and the rest are floating and I for the life of me don't know the best way to level all the pins. I shelved it for now as I was getting frustrated trying to work them with these crappy tweezers.
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You know someone is competent when he tries to mess up on purpose and fails lol
😂
haha so true
Alex is a very experienced professional. I have been soldering electronics for years and would not even attempt some of what he does. Unbelievable, how easy he makes it look.
@@stuart207Elaborate
this guy is so good that even when hes trying to mess up he cant
Seen better ones that go through many layers of burnt pcb.
that's what good tools do.
Alex is right. I used to use an all in one station and struggled but invested in a JBC soldering iron and an Atten hot air station and it was a big game changer. It allowed me to work quicker and be more precise. The jobs are now much easier to do compared to when i had the all in one system.
Same here love my jbc soldering station though my hotair station is a quick 861de I gather the attens are similar in quality.
@@electronJarvs yes their on equal grounds i believe.
The good Atten ST-862D right? Cause there are junk hot air models of Atten.
@@electronJarvs The similar Atten one does not have a replaceable coil nozzle. While the Quick Does.
Is JBC better than Hakko?
Alex - you rule! I'm 68 - been soldering since 10 or so and never seen a better tutor! Thanks and then your humor is priceless!
As someone learning to solder on PCBs (older GPUs currently), your channel has been infinitely more valuable than all of the other big tech youtubers combined. Subbing.. you've earned it. Thank you.
I visit the 9th dimension often and I can say a lot of tiny capacitors do come here.
I saw Jay’s video and thought he tried hard. This video was impressive. I didn’t know much about the tools, flux, and solder that is needed today. Thank you.
I can honestly say I`ve never soldered anything in my life but love to watch these videos. Thanks Alex
Great demo show today!
I have to tell you that I made my own pin straightener by taking a very small hollow tube made of aluminum and then placing it over the bent pin and angling it back to the up right position which bends the pin back to straight.
It is quick and easy to do.
The hole or inside diameter of the tube fits perfectly over the pins with little play making it easy to bend them straight.
I do heat the pins first but not to the point of melting the solder at the base so as get a more pliable result putting less stress on the metal.
Or, *gently* use a mechanical pencil with the lead removed. Works like a charm.
A pro doin' pro stuff. Beautiful. Sharing his knowledge and wisdom, making the world a better place. Thank you.
I did replaced a few days ago 2 broken pins from a Amd ryzen cpu,with hot air station and thanks to Alex by watching his videos , i had a successful process! Thank you Alex for all your shares! You and big boss are awesome!
I've learned so much from this video. I struggled a lot with my soldering iron because solder won't stick to it or just partially, and I had no idea why. Guess I have to invest into a better quality iron and tip. Thanks a lot for this video, very insightful.
If your iron is that bad, you will be thrilled when you get a better iron.
When solder doesn't want to stick, heat won't transfer to the workpiece well, so it makes heating up what you want to solder real hard... Sometimes impossible.
I have a very cheap china soldering station with a very cheap soldering tip. The tip was ok and the solder stuck to it very well until the wires fell off the temp sensor. The tip started to glow and the solder never stuck to it again.
The coating of the soldering tips breaks down due to too much heat and the wrong type of solder.
I really tried a lot, but nothing led to success.
Since i didn't have no other soldering tip, i sanded the soldering tip down to the copper.
That was 3 years ago and the tip still works very well to this day.
Your tip could be oxidised, even more expensive tips will do this if you don't look after them. Try cleaning it with wire wool and flux.
@@sulcusulnaris Nah some of the chinesium tips are just trash. If his tip ever worked properly, I am pretty sure he would have realized there was something wrong with it.
I bought a cheap chinese soldering station back in the day, the tips that came with it worked just fine. But I bought some replacement tips off aliexpress and they were like solder repellents. He probably needs better tips.
A lot of elitism in these comments, but i think most of them are missing the point of Jay's video. Jay's perspective is that of a hobbyist, probably closer to what any of us would experience trying the repair with reasonably attainable equipment. You can't really compare his attempt to that of a professional with access to thousands of dollars of equipment doing the repair.
I bought everything you use for my micro soldering business and everything works fantastic! Tried going cheap on soldering tips once but threw them in the garbage
I’ve never seen a multi purpose billiard table before but your description is quite accurate 😂 you are right tools made for that kind of a job (micro soldering) should totally accurate otherwise you’ll be left out with a crapshoot job
I doubt I'll ever realistically need to do anything remotely like this (although I'd love to!)
I've managed to brick my motherboard, so going to attempt to rewrite to the chip, searching for methods eventually led me to this channel, the rabbit hole began😂
I find these videos so informative and entertaining. Thank you for sharing the knowledge and education.
Don't be fooled, the skill, practice, steady hands, material knowledge, electronic component knowledge, chemistry, thermal properties of components, solder, pcb, flux, the knowledge how to use what and when is very important. I haven't mentioned tools yet and that's on purpose, without the above tools are nearly useless.
While the other channels mentioned are competent system builders but are beginners at repair at microscopic and electronics level. NF has demonstrated that distinction very well.
It's a shame Jay and Linus don't take the time to view other great TH-cam content creators such as NorthbridgeFix. Computers and Electronics have a vast array of different avenues and applications than just hardware reviews. This channel is a Godsend to those who prefer to tinker and fix new or old items. What school would you attend or have the time in your busy career to learn just one aspect of electronic repair? Thank you for all the free lessons.
@@POS-Website-User Nailed it
If you were tech enthusiast, I don't think they are good for you, most tech channel right now sadly has just become advertising company. Once you see it you just can't unsee it.
Linus manages 80 employees and is the face of his conpany and is the host the majority of the time.
Jay manages a few employees but is also the face of his company.
They're doing pretty good in the real world when they've been around for roughly 10 years.
@@3agl33y369 Exactly my point, they've been around for 10 years like you say, they should be more aware of other Great TH-camrs.
Your mentioned creators are working in different aspect of entertainment, they promote consumerism.
It's no fun when CPU pins go to the 9th dimension. 😂
Some people are really the experts in destroying those pins properly :)
Actually, He has been doing this for years, as his procedures and practiced hand movements reveal. I am unsure of how much theory he has, but he does understand the underlying rules of how to handle and protect these tiny components, as he says can go "to the 9th Dimension".
Love your channel and the methodologies you use. Congrats on building a business for the family to share in! Thank you, Alex! 😁🙂👍👍👍
Alex, you have to record more videos. It's very pleasant, to watch how you work! :)
Up until last week, I thought I had the best tweezers, a set of Bergeon's... then on a whim the week before after being given the nod I bought for £3.50 a pair of dental surgery tweezers, made by an English company called Medentra... the bigger locking ones have very grippy tips which for holding screws about the size of them cpu pins is a game changer, the other set in the kit are ultra ultra fine, extremely fine tips never seen 'em that thin before and both surgical stainless steel and has made such a difference to doing my watches. Sometimes you can spend absolute fortunes on the heartell of others and find instead a diamond in the rough like these Medentra's, many of my watch friends have now bought some and agreed they are absolutely awesome tweezers :)
which model - I can't see anything really fine in either their general surgery or dental catalogue
I have to agree your microscope is the best I've seen on TH-cam repair channels. High definition and great detail and colour. Dept of field is very good also
Very good video Alex. Every single person that watches this video will definitely learn something. It felt like I was taking a soldering course.
NorthridgeFix you demonstrated why you are one of the best and most respected repair channels ever. You make it look so easy. Well done Sir.
Thank you so much for the lesson on how to desolder and solder CPU pins. You are an excellent teacher.
This is like Messi coaching someone who played football for only 2 weeks.
I like that he isn't throwing hate towards jayztwocents. The fact Jay tried but like he said Jay isn't an expert. These experts have the tech and the patience to do these tasks
It takes someone with extremely steady hands (and confidence) to be able to do this job perfectly, every time.
I’ve gained so much confidence from watching your videos, thank you for the free training!
I think it can be helpful when non-experts attempt expert work. Watching them fail can remind viewers that the work they were attempting is very difficult.
You are an excellent expert in your field, carrying excellent equipment (as this video explains). The trouble with videos like those on your channel is that people see you making very difficult jobs look simple, which makes them think they could do it too. It is easy to forget how much expertise you have!
I watch your videos as entertainment. I used to repair computers before I fell ill. I have a sound background in electronics. I have enough sense to recognise that the work you do requires considerable expertise. I know if I was to attempt it, I would fail miserably. I am not sure I'd have the patience or attention to detail to do your job. If I wanted to, I could try, but I recognise I'd need a lot of practice. If I was still in buisiness, I'd be more inclined to subcontract such work to someone like yourself rather than attempt it myself.
My expertise lies in software. I shall stay within my field of expertise, and admire your work in your field of expertise.
I agree with what you said completely. The real problem is providing a solid balance between showing viewers that it's not a dream but very possible for them to purchase and learn to do the same work, but at the same time realize they will not be immediately successful. You have to put in the time to practice and fail more often at the start but with persistence they could eventually rival even Alex on this channel!
Yes, it is not only the tools and equipments, the experience and your brain should work together
Alex is doing great
Bcoz i too worked in an SMD plant
With state of the art technology
I did mention your videos (as you are very very professional) and shared your website. When i saw Jay's video,you was the first who cameup in my mind.
I can’t believe it’s already been over 18 months that I’ve been watching your channel. How time flies.
يعطيك العافية اليكس، انا اقدر الفيديوات اللي تشرح اخطاء شائعة من المبتدئين. دائما تعطي نصائح مفيدة، حتى لو ما عندي اي فكرة عن الالكترونيات. نتعلم منك ال reversed engineering. Ur tips are always pricesless. الله يوفقك و يرزقك من رزقه الكريم
True a good soldering station makes work so much better. Had a cheap soldering iron and fixed my work just by upping my soldering iron to a good solder station with great tips.
Helping each other is sensational
You’re a true gentleman ✊
Your the best and I have purchased from your site and products are top notch with zero issues. Love the education.
Ya when I started soldering. I did start with a all in 1 soldering station.
Sucks until.i bought expensive good tools. Now I'm the man on any solder job
I saw Jayz's video in my feed but i knew that it will be bad and didnt watch it. Cant do it either, iam just getting my tools together and iam just at the 286 pc motherboard kind of micro soldering. I have a good solderin station but its not good for varta battery damage so i bought a solder sucking station, not the best but works, tried manual pump and solder wick but that didnt work for battery damage. Needed flux and more solder and good suction to get parts off the board. Did do hirosima with my xbox360 because of no good vision of the board but later i will fix it. Tools are so important, heat and vision is the needed parts. Thanks i have learned a lot from these videos!
NorthridgeFix is the master micro soldering guy! Thank you again for making editing and posting your videos! I always buy my tools and equipment from NorthridgeFix!
Good explanation of how low-melt solder helps remove components.
thats why i am subscribed to this guy he fix electronics beautifully.he makes it look like its easy ♥️
Wow such amazing quality camera and lighting and tools, but most especially: *_knowledge/advice!_*
The visuals are like ASMR for the eyes.
I thank you for the tips and tweaks man, sharing your skills costs a fortune, lesson learnt and will be applied. Thanks once again
I've watched many of your videos Alex and I must admit you are master especially with the soldering iron, I have watched others do soldering and I'm no expert but some of them to my mind don't do a good job and a lot of them look messy when finished. Thank you again your explanation on this was spot on, you shown us the right and wrong way, you are a top man Alex.
This videos was perfect for hobbies, how to solder better. Thank you so much!
I’m so
Glad you did this !!!
First electronic repair channel I seen is when LouisRossman had his colorful take on Linus' "gpu repair" by putting it in the oven.
Nice to see more channels like this.
jayzTwoCents first board repair attempt his soldering was so bad he attached a component to the board with glue and it worked and the whole internet cringed.
So he has come leaps and bounds with acquiring decent tools etc. he learned what flux is etc. he has learned enough to have an appreciating for whats involved.
Alex can easily become a surgeon. His hands don't shake at all and he can do that without even watching the circuits. He is watching the monitor which make this process even tougher...!
Always impressed with your confident technique!
Eating Shawarma weekly can give you super powers... extra garlic is mandatory
to be fair too, jay is more into pc building and such and not repairing components, i think jay did a good job as first try. for someone like Northridgefix that does this a ton more on daily basis its alot easier compared to someone that just tried it first time
You Are The MASTER in your job Hussain , I really enjoy your videos , Cheers from Damascus -Syria
Alex you gotta be stacking that bread by now. You deserve 3 million followers or more.
I bend some pins on my cpu because it was stuck on the cooler and ripped of the socket.
Saw once a video where you rebend pins. What can i say. Fixed. Somehow i felt encouraged through you
Just leaving this here for mistake prevention : before removing a CPU cooler you wanna melt the thermal compound a bit by leaving the PC running for a few minutes to prevent cooler sticking.
@@Kheops. can also heat it from the top; the heatsink can steadily absorb heat from a flame (like a flame from a jet lighter is the easiest, remove the plastic fan from the heatsink, then direct the fire from a jet lighter downward onto the heatsink).
Perfect explanation of how a pin is placed on a cpu. Good job and better explanation. Regards.
Thank you for the tutorial. You didn't have to make this but you did to inform us how to do it right. If I was American I would love to work for you
Yes having good tools is obviously the better way to go but i think if you just wanna play around with it or want to learn it whilst having very little money youll have to look at cheaper options. A professional should of course be using great tools and spare no expenses but i feel like maybe a better concept for this video wouldve been to use something like his setup and show how you would do it while constricted by the bad tools and trying to do the jobe despite their low quality. If you have a crappy statation laying around maybe do a part 2 of this video to show us how you would do that under the circumstances he was in
You are right,i have a 3 in one station and just like to mess around with old laptops for FUN? Just to see if i have the ability to do something useful beside repairing cars and antique watches.I've had cataract surgery on both eyes and can tell you SEEING WHAT YOU ARE WORKING ON is the most important thing ,at least for me.ALEX has the best microscope setup i have ever seen to do the job.And the price while not cheap is a very good value !!! While you can buy scopes for 1/3 the price ,i think you would not be happy.I'm glad my EYE surgeon bought the best microscopic eyepieces>>>haha I like learning from the best and so far Alex is at the very top of a short list.He shows the right way to do jobs,thanks alex.
Thanks for the education! Well spoken, and caring!
Jayz got my respect as he admits stuff...LTT shame on you!!!!
I love your videos! You really out here teaching people. I want to start repairing stuff myself. Maybe not expensive stuff or super small things at first, just for fun. I bought a soldering iron a month ago and i started trying repairing old gpu fan cables and tried to solder back cables on to the fan hub, but i did not have flux and i believe that made it more difficult so definitely gonna buy that and see the difference.
Absolutely love your material! You've been quite an inspiration to me and my technicians, leading us to tinker and practice with more things to hone our skills. Keep the content coming!
@JayzTwoCents this video will help you tremendously in your cpu endeavours, alex is my goto guy when I need tips on how to repair something and has helped me no end
@Jayztwocents let's see if this works
@Jayztwocents does this work? Edit: man TH-cam is neutered in so many ways can't even @ someone anymore.
@@johninenglish8236 I know I sucks don't it
@@johninenglish8236 I think they killed the @ function because people used to spam it.
I hope you and Jay can do a collaboration and you can show him how you would solider pins and tech him would make a crazy video.
I hope jay sees this so he keeps trying and succeeds
Alex a big advantage towards you when you solder is always the microscope. I have everything to solder and I could do a decent job, and yes most of the equipment I use I buy it from your store, but one thing I don't have is the microscope cause I can't afford it. I use a phone with good camara zoom and a stand and I get the job done. I have replace HDMI's, USB C chargers and various chips/mosfets and I'll do small microscopic components that I feel comfortable in replacing. I only do this for myself and family.
Northridgefix micro soldering expert and shameless plug 😂😂💯💯 love the videos!!
I love your videos and this is one of the best!
So many tips and information. Learning from other failures is helping so much.
Thank you!
Jayztwocents is pronounced Jay's two cents LOL. love your channel
The more I watch your videos, and other technicians as well, more I get impressed with your skills, and more I think that I dont have the motion control required for this and I'll gladly play for a professional to do this for me if I need it one day. Altough I have a broken Xbox Series controller and I'm kinda tempted to open it and see if I can fix it, a stiff left analog and sticky A and B buttons.
One of your most informative videos I have seen full of useful tips and tricks thanks for this one Alex 👍
I like and wtch your videos all the time, Alex. I learned a lot from them and I am learning from them every time. I check every day if you posted any new videos or not. Even though without these videos, you would have more time to fix stuff brought into the shop. Your time wasted on these videos is much appreciated :)
I have never done anything like this before, and know absolutely nothing about cpu pins or resistors and soldering and flux or any of it. But man was that interesting. I think I kind of want to learn more about this stuff and how to do it.
steady hand, good equipment, practice and patience :)
Linus is a complete moron but I love Jay’s videos but Jay is more of a carpenter than an electrician so this isn’t his forte so I expected him to fail miserably lol. Your videos are really insightful and you don’t waste time, really love this stuff, thanks for making them.
Alex. You are great teaching good lesson about repair stuff. You are awesome,..
What a joy to watch you make it look so easy, thanks!
absolute master! thank you very much for the knowledge shared.
thank you for sharing your experience and professional skills - greeting’s from germany
Hi, your repair videos are inspiring. I am curious though, what is the success rate for repairing? Are there cases where you found where the product arrived irreparable?
I learn so much every time i watch these!
Quality tools make ALL the difference, especially when working with such small components.
Exactly what I thought when I saw Jayz's video...😁
I hate it when people like u make this stuff look so easy. 😆 Great video and props on ur skills.
Not hating on Jay, but as soon as i saw his attempt video. I was "hoping" Alex would happen to take a look at it and do a video on it.
I have zero skills in soldering, so its always very very satisfying to watch alex do some of his "better than factory" work lol.
Your videos are very entertaining, I don't do repairs, but I love tech and gadgets, and I find this very interesting.
Very practical, as always. Thanks!!
You are a true master of your trade, good sir.
You are not a micro-soldering expert either, but you are a great connector soldering guru 😅 When I'm going to see you rebolling something, or grounding and fixing cracked pcb?
NorthbridgeFix Rocks very cool vid Alex!!!!
The billiards table comment got me LOL. Awesome!
I feel same as you Alex, I'm working 13 broken pins of ryzen 7 pro 4750g yesterday and it's hard to work if the twister is not good. But I'm longing the same working station as you are using with 😊
How do pins get broken off cpu's? That's a lot, yikes.
I watch Jay's channel for content. He is in Southern CA and should come see you. I haven't seen anyone on the web who can do what you do!
Jay literally said he's never done it and he was practicing. He didn't fail he did exactly as expected.
Grabbed a pin off an Athlon 64 since had so many of them in stock for a Ryzen CPU, and it worked fine. Pin had same diameter but was just longer. Did have a few bad Ryzen processors but recycled them so didn't have bad spares.
"I don't want to talk bad about the tools that he has" Uh, yes you do! I love this guys videos.
I've replaced a few CPU pins with a pencil iron. The tip was all copper (one of those cheap crap irons) that I made into a real skinny cone tip with a file. The tip was completely ruined but it was enough to solder the pins, plus the cheap iron was a throw away unit anyway.
I really love the way you talk!
Enjoy your work and diligence too it, SAD NOTE, wish I had got into this part of hardware repair when younger as the hands I'm guessing need some training for such finer detail. Great Video as always! Peace
Learning so much yet I swear I always run into more questions! I do plan to order some flux and tweezers from yall because I did order cheap amazon ones and well... the flux is hard to apply and extremely sticky and the tweezers I keep having to reshape.. I was doing a test board and one of the semiconductors on 1 side 3 pins touch and the rest are floating and I for the life of me don't know the best way to level all the pins. I shelved it for now as I was getting frustrated trying to work them with these crappy tweezers.