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Have you ever soldered before? What did you do?

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Have you ever soldered before? What did you do?
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>>62181362
Replaced blown capacitors in many a PC power supply.
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>>62181362
I soldered.
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>>62181362
I solder all the time.
Fixing old audio equipment is fun.
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>>62181362
Yes, I'm an electronics engineer.
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New caps on a Pentium4 motherboard that wouldn't start.
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Soldering a PV module in my College right now as a part of my masters degree. It is a pain in the ass.
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Jacks and plugs
I suck at it, though. Damn shaky hands
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I've soldered rs232 and xlr connectors, I'm pretty sloppy though.
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Yeah soldered and I used a bath solder machine.
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Nissan engine wiring harness into a Mercedes for an engine swap project
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I soldered cpus
t. Ahmed
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Swapped an assload of caps on mobos and in monitors. Rrepaired a couple of laptop power supplies where the wires had snapped off in the cable. Mended a bunch of solder joints that had given up due to mechanical stress.
Nothing fancy.
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>>62181362
I built my own ergodox: http://ergodox.io
the hardest fucking part was mounting the SMD diodes that were almost smaller than the tip of the cheapo iron I was using. But now I can shitpost on /g/ much more efficiently with it
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I was fixing my earphones
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>3DS hardmod
>PS3 CFW flash process
>Countless PSU's
>Fixed broken laptop backlight by soldering in a new LED backlight
>Reflow a PS3
>Reflow a laptop motherboard with a shitty 8000 series gpu
>Reflow a motherboard whose northbridge was coming undone
>Replaced an EEPROM on a motheboard
>Made countless small projects

Trick are:
>Get a temperature controlled soldering iron with plenty of wattage and easily sourcable tips. e.g. Yihua 936
>Use chisel tips or a knife tip, pointy crap has a shitty profile for 99% of the work
>Get a third hand or build one yourself
>Use flux and leaded soldering tin
>Angled flatcutters are a must and always keep a finger on the leg you're cutting, otherwise it'll jump right into yer eye.
>Clean up your soldering joints with alcohol and a brush
>Cheap ass solder suckers are decent and great if you ever need to desolder something
>Fume extractors are nice
>Hot Air stations can be had for pretty cheap e.g. 858D
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wtf? seriously?

look, if you are not soldering something every day then you really don't belong on this board.
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>>62182297
But I own soldering pantyhose. Doesn't that count?
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>>62182297
If you have not installed gentoo on your soldering station, you do not belong on this board.
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>>62182254

I can attest to the Yihua being pretty good. It has the combination hot air reflow gun and the soldering iron. I've been using it to repair old pcs and electronics and I haven't had any issue at all. Kind of funny how china makes quality repair tools but is known for subpar standards
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>>62182254
>>62182326
>recommending chink shit knockoffs

just die already
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>>62182308
only if you have programming socks and fingerless hacking gloves too
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>>62182344

How do you knock off a widely used and hugely simplified tool like a soldering iron? Are you like a Snap On whore? Only caring about brand name.
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>>62181362
Small stuff, replaced defective LEDs, fixed connectors, desoldered capacitors, resistors etc. from old boards, soldered small circuits on breadboards for rpi

>>62182254
>chisel or knife tip
Nice, I'll try this out when switching out the switches on my keyboard
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>>62182374
Hakko has some pretty decent tips (get it, get it) on soldering:
https://www.hakko.com/english/tip_selection/work_drag.html
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Once. Blown caps in a broken monitor. The thing is that I made a fool of myself because I asked the store clerk for the caps because I said nanofahrads instead of micro.
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>>62182438
>not using ultracaps in your monitor
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>>62181362
I've done pretty much anything.
>>62182254
>otherwise it'll jump right into yer eye.
...also, always wear your safety glasses on when when dabbling with electronics. Hot solder can shoot at random directions at times, like when some tension is released or something equally unexpected. I had some accidents that involved my eyes (had more luck than brains though), not just during soldering. Like this one time when I was doing a repair on a power supply and I connected it to mains to make some readings but I made a short with my probe and the pcb exploded in front of my eyes. Nothing major happened to me but later on I discovered there are some copper particles smelted into the lenses of my glasses, that were impossible to scrub off.
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>>62181362
building prototypes and other funs

Easiest and most enjoyable recent thing I did was rewiring some self flashed EPROM to modify a JP only NES game so it could play in English on an actual NES. Friend didn't care much for emulators.
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if you're not microsoldering shit like u2 ic on iphones you aint shit
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yes
desoldering Aristotles, from an old new stock chicony that I lost switch lottery with because I forgot to check serial num, modding into zeliostotles and resoldering to the chicony because it's better than any modern board anyway
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Many times, doing a wii chip years and years ago was probably the hardest I've done.
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>>62181362
I always thought I was a terrible solderer and my work would always be shit and there was nothing I could do to improve because no matter how much I practiced I would always get the same awful results.
Turns out, the trick to decent soldering is using a decent soldering iron/station.
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>>62182626
>that babby shit
>hard

sub micro or neck yourself

if you don not do SMD for everything, you are not fucking soldering
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>>62182651
There is no need to be upset
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>>62182676
then stop being a faggot and claim you are 'soldering' when you're just fucking around
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>>62181362
What ISA board is being soldered together there? There are a few kits around for things like RAM expansions and the like.
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>>62182687
>>62182651
Fuck this guy, SMD work aside that looks tidy as fuck and the guy has clearly given some thought to neatly laying shit out. I don't give a shit how well you flow solder, if you can't do a neat job of it you're a fucking primate.

Would let near my shit with a screwdriver/10
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>>62182757
It's not an ISA board. Lrn2pincount.
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I soldered in a Saturn modchip. That's one wire.
Tried an Xbox hardmod as well but I fucked it up because it was a lot more complicated and shaky hands
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I soldered my botnet asus charger, because the cable broke. I soldered my mother's dell laptop's botnet on/off switch. I also made a botnet radio station. I fixed my logitech sound blaster's botnet cable as well.
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>>62182626
wow, that looks pretty and horrible at the same time
you could say, it's ___pretty horrible___
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>>62182632
>Turns out, the trick to decent soldering is using a decent soldering iron/station.
yep, same thing with me. I always had trouble with soldering until I tried the equipment in my school
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>>62182651
>SMD for everything
...but SMD isn't perfect for everything, 90% of the time yes, it is, but there are some things that are better done by other means
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Solder the wires back to their probes on my piece of shit harbor freight multimeter.
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>>62181362
Had to solder several batteries and cables for RC cars and planes, replaced some blown caps, soldered my mechanical keyboard (tm) and other stuff.
Finally got myself a somewhat decent soldering station with temperature control. Before that I only had a shitty $10 iron with a completely fucked tip and flux as viscous as rubber.
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Mostly blown bits in monitors, mobos and couple times a GPU. Replaced a vrm on an evga 1070 with one from a dead 7870 i believe it was. It worked surprisingly and sold it to some twitch streamer lol
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>>62181362
soldered a 44mhz xtal to my dev board for dem sweet clock gainz
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>>62182194
>http://ergodox.io
this is one of the coolest hardware projects i've seen in a while
pls don't stop posting
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Did an RGH 1.2 install without QSBs, wasn't too difficult.
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>>62182651
>cooling a TO-218 package with a massive surface and a metal tab through a quality thermal paste with a beefy cooler securely screwed to the frame
vs
>cooling a tiny SMD transistor through its plastic case and a thermopad with a janky cooler mounted the PCB with pushpins
No thanks
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>>62181493
No, you're a bench monkey.
If you were an actual electronics engineer you'd have much more important work than soldering.
I've been a electronics engineer for 15 years, the only time I solder is in my own time, on my own projects. We have interns or reflow machines to do actual soldering.
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>>62183277
ok, anon
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>>62183403
>the only time I solder is in my own time, on my own projects.
so you're not making any prototypes anytime during the process of making a product?
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Resoldered my guitars jack.
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Made this radio for a school project. Turned out better than expected.
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I've made some clocks. Shit was cash.
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>>62183403
How to spot a retard
If you're not actively soldering you don't know what you should pay attention to in the design of a PCB.
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>>62181362
>Have you ever soldered before?
Yes
>What did you do?
soldered
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You're not a true solderer until you've taken a hot load of solder to the skin
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>>62183777
2 of my fingertips don't feel heat anymore
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>>62183777
This. Sitting cross legged in basketball shorts is the patrician way.
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Made a shitty battle bot in physics once.. came in second place though.. SOB was all defence. Along with a few LEDs, busted PC fans and a power cable to a lamp my chewed on (while it was unplugged luckily)
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>>62182626
Why did you do it like that? Why not design a PCB with actual traces?
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>>62181362
>Have you ever soldered before?
Nice neo-/g/ m8
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a simple light circuit that i somehow managed to fuck up and need to solder 2 pins together that isnt suppose to be soldered together
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>>62183916
It looks like he was jacking into two separate QFP chips, I'd like to see you try designing a pcb that allows you to do that.
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/g/ how do I get less shaky hands? I'm fine with larger solder joints and run-of-the-mill soldering but my shaky ass can't handle modchips or any kind of SMD without streaking the tip all the way across the chip and melting plastic.
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>>62181362
I used to. I have arthritis now and have trouble with precision.
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>>62184503
>streaking the tip all the way across the chip and melting plastic.

Take the pcb out of the case?
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>>62184530
The PCB is on the table. I'm talking about shaky hands causing me to melt the chip I'm trying to solder a jumper.
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We had electronics stuff on second grade in . It was fun. It's a shame that the rest of the handicraft in the curriculum consisted of nothing but woodworking. I didn't care enough to start tinkering with these things at home.
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yes, mostly modular and non modular synths + home applicances
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>>62184566
Junkie scum plz go
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>>62182254
>Get a third hand or build one yourself

So much this, i spent a good amount of University without one. It was hell trying to hold small components
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>>62181376
I thought you needed some super secret training from oldfag soldering society to solder

and that even then it would not be as reliable as a new one.
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>>62181362
i solder every other day actually.
Did this in uni last year. Was too lazy to change objective on my camera that's why focus is fucked, m9 :)
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All the time.
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>>62181362
fix Iphone motherboards
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>>62181362
Soldered an ESP8266 to my desk lamp and used it to remotely turn the lamp on and off.

>I hooked up my desk lamp to the botnet
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>>62185439
jesus christ, use a soldering iron, not a hot fucking shovel
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>>62185503
>ESP8266

depreciated you fucking retard

ESP32 or neck yourself
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>>62186104
Not that anon, but are you literally retarded? There is nothing wrong with his soldering.
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Mechatronics engineer here.

solder down to surface mount for teh lulz.
Repair various shit when production lines go down and the techs are all "muh spaghetti"

Had to solder caps that were too large to fit, cos that's all I had, on a motherboard when a production server went down.

still got fucking railed for taking too long rolleyes.jpg

the cs meme continues.
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>>62185439
needs more flux.
guess you spent to much time trying to get the joint right, or retouched the joints a few times.
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>>62186104
You know how many amps are going to be flowing through those solder joints?
Looks fine to me.
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I do more desoldering than soldering ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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I made a CPU
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>>62183403
>that douchebag uppity employee that won't ever get his hand dirty and waits for others to do some small task cuz muh engineering degree

You are society's aids
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>>62185439
drones shiet
disregard those fags the soldering iz gud!
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>>62186524
this prick triggers me.
gets a free ride to college because he dismantled a clock and put it in a shitty mini brief case. wtf?
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>>62186855
>gets a free ride to college because he dismantled a clock and put it in a shitty mini brief case. wtf?
No. He got a ride to college because of dumb faggots
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>>62187044
either way it's bull shit
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>>62181376
Same, but for an old LCD screen.

And many little things after that. But that was the only one on PCB, most of the time it was just electrical wiring of some sort.

Also I repaired a broken key once, a literal life saver.
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>>62182626
Wtf
You use ground cable colors for the whole job
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Yes, the skin between my fingers together.
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yes, first time I made a desk lamp from leds PVC pipes and epoxy
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>>62182344
Soldering irons are like the one thing the chinks can do right, and they depend on them themselves.
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Chipping my GameCube was probably the hardest, followed by nodding the component cables for VGA because you have to lift IC legs and solder in a tiny ass 10k resistor as well as horizontal and vertical sync lines.
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It's really simple to me, because I've built more stuff, that's very complicated - like CPUs and soldering them
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>>62186855
His whole family are professional PC trolls. Particularly his father.
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>>62186310
Your company's uptime solution is to have some engineer to do component-level repair on the failed part that has no spare?
Then yell at the guy for not repairing it fast enough?

That's really poor.
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>>62182626
SOPA DE MACACO
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>>62188239
Nice nails.
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>>62183777
or try to change tip before letting the iron cool down.
cos fuck waiting
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>>62181362
>Taking my electronics class
>Hear we're getting a kit with chips and a breadboard
>Get excited that maybe near the end of the semester we'll learn to solder
>"There will be no soldering in this class"
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>>62185418
desu that's a fucking mess
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>>62188830
Soldering is so simple a monkey could do it. You don't need a class for it.
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>>62186310
IT can never do no wrong m8
We even have to change the ups batteries for them
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I soldered in the headunit in my car...
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>>62188889
How I dun do eet den?
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>>62188732
The IT department can ever do anything wrong, they are fucking golden boys.
we even have to replace the ups batteries for them
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>>62185210
Soldering non surfacemount stuff is super easy, middle schoolers can do it. It just needs a relatively steady hand.
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>>62188830
That is one of the most retarded things I have ever heard of
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>>62181362
oops
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>>62181362
I replaced some capacitors on a Samsung SyncMaster 226BW.
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>>62188935
U grab the hot soldier thingy (no touch tip! Ouch!) and then take soldier wire (not hot, touch ok) and then you put together Zzzzzssssshhhhhhhh then soldier liquid you drip drip on place you want to make stick and then stick color (or metal) string into it.

Let it cool and now you have soldered something. Good job, have a head pat.
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Soldering is a really easy dumb skill. Even most smd work with the right iron and tip is easy shit. Might as well brag about being able to change your tires or oil in your car.
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>>62189052
>soldier liquid drip drip
L-Lewd
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>>62188962
Am I looking at DIY parity here?
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>>62186524
Wtf those are just wires glued onto a pcb
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>>62188830
I've never met anyone that can't solder, you don't have to learn how to press two pieces of metal together
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>>62189143
Well, can't you still suck ass at soldering?
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>>62181743
Sounds like a waste of caps
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The connection to one of the drivers of a very old pair of headphones I was opening snapped off so I soldered it back on.

I'd like to do a custom mechanical keyboard but I don't really want to pay the money for a proper iron
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I soldered some parts of a vintage Soviet synth (pic related)

I also soldered my grandma's old electrical Russian door bell

Somehow I only manage to solder Soviet devices.
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>>62189240
I got a TS100 just so I could fix my RCs in the field (it'll run off lipos). Bit pricy but I regret nothing.
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>>62189084
I bet you like hot soldier liquid.
Don't touch the tip, ok?

You might hurt yourself. :^)
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>>62189367
i'll soldier my antenna into your RF hole.
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>>62188826
What nails
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>>62189143
>doesn't count the solder as a piece of metal
Know how I can tell you haven't soldered, ever?

>>62183361
>not using the pc board as a heatsink
Nice excluded middle.

>>62186115
>depreciated
Go back to your size war threads where muh corporate titans can do the thinking for you, brainlet.

>>62189240
An improper temperature-controlled pencil iron shouldn't cost more than $30-$40.

>>62188830
underage?

>>62182254
>leaded solder
Real men use SAC305
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>>62181362
i soldered ur mum
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>>62189520
>SAC305
Enjoy your tin whiskers shorting your shit years later.
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I'm building an Adlib clone soundcard for my old 8086

It's the first time i etch a double layer circuit, alignment was difficult, soldering is even more difficult, due to the missing connections between the top and the bottom layer.

Hope it works, ill' spend some more time to doublecheck the hundreds of connections.
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>>62181376
You fucking take apart a power supply and fix it? Are you aware of how incredibly dangerous that is? Just one of those capacitors holding a charge is enough to kill you 3 times over what the fuck.
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>>62189887
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>>62189688
Doesn't even take years if the tin gets cold enough even once.
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>>62189887
>Just one of those capacitors holding a charge is enough to kill you 3 times over what the fuck.

What is discharging with Resistors?
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>>62183449
>>62183747
>>62186530
But he's right. All you need is patience, steady hands and pajeet intelligence.

>>62189887
>enough to kill you 3 times over what the fuck.
And what's the problem with that?
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>>62189887
Don't lick it, then.
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Repaired some old headphones.
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>>62181362
Repaired a stage mic.
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>>62190333
>What is discharging with Resistors?
You mean the bleeders built into every professionally made power supply as a safety measure?
The myth lives on, even in the children.
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>>62188198
>Soldering irons are like the one thing the chinks can do right
Except they do the good stuff too, you just know them for their cheap stuff
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>>62189143
show us your work then
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Yes, I did some educational kits in eighth or ninth grade. A roulette machine with blinking lights and beeps and a motion detector with blinking lights and beeps. I think I messed up with the motion sensor though or the LED might have been bad so the lights didn't work. Rest did though.
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>>62189052
>U grab the hot soldier thingy (no touch tip! Ouch!) and then take soldier wire (not hot, touch ok) and then you put together Zzzzzssssshhhhhhhh then soldier liquid you drip drip on place you want to make stick and then stick color (or metal) string into it.
such a simple thing, yet you managed to get it completely wrong
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>>62181362
Me and a friend turned a couple of shitty £10 remote control cars into even shittier remote control boats and raced them down the local canal. His sunk half way mine sunk half way back. My crew of orks have a small memorial just off the path of the canal in golcar.
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A Samsung power jack.
Looked like shit.
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>>62182626
>Wii Chip
All you needed was a USB.
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>>62181362
I followed instructions to make a micro usb dongle for a samsung galaxy ages ago, the buttons were fucked and couldn't access some reset mode or something.

I also made a cardboard fightstick.
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>>62192368
feel you bro. I did the same a month ago. Desoldering it was a nightmare, it ate up heat like a black hole
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>>62181362
yes

>course project in uni
>repair my headphone amp
>build my own circuit tester
>other small shit I forget
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>>62181779
Lay off the booze hombre.
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>>62182626
I did this same thing back in the day, D2Ckey right? had about 30 wires to solder, took like 2 hours.
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>>62189289
I feel as if you are Russian?
>But hey thats just a theory, a game theory.
>>Imma kill myself for that, sorry.
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>>62189108
stupid attempt at adding an extra address line. didn't work. wouldn't recommend.
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Replaced blown capacitors on a TV
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>>62181362

built this 600w class b sub amp 10 years ago.. still using it 24/7
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>>62193908
>"built"
So you wound you own toroids, eh?
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>>62181362
Yes. I fixed a video card using bad solder and methods. Worked and I sold the video card.
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>>62183403
> Mistake in board design
> "Whoops, need a bodge wire, Gary made a mistake in his section of it"

Computer Engineer here, want to know how I know you're lying?
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>>62194965
>pic

What the actual shit.
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>>62181362
I made extensions and repaired headphones once
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>>62181362
Bought a SNES for a couple of bucks and replaced the power jack, twice.
They both work now with a generic 9V / 1000mA power supply.
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>>62189289
>пoливoкc
Jelly af.
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>>62181362
Sold my dick
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I am planning to make an O2 amp, is it really worth it?
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>>62189887

>Not being certified to work in a lab with high voltages
>2011+6
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- Samsung monitor caps
- Head unit- bypassed CD player audio lines with an aux cable- DIY aux plug
- lots of laptop DC jacks

The problem with soldering surface mount components is that the time you spend doing it isn't worth it- you're usually better off replacing the entire component, unless it is a very simple fix. The only exceptions being if you live in a third world shithole or hate yourself and don't value your time.
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>>62195488
to the chastity cage
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>>62186115
>t. brainlet
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>>62181362
A gauss gun in shool outta a voltage multiplier, a nassive power thyristor and a fuckload of electrolythic caps.

It was shitty, gave me arc burns, and later almost set my house on fire. Good thing i figured ro add a resistor between the multiplier and wall socket
>connect a lead
>trigger thyristor
>it blows up louder than a gunshot and brighter than a camera flash
>cool !
>go take a piss
>have no idea it killed the thyristor
>come back and see the resistor is white hot, glowing like a lightbulb and setting the shit around itself on fire
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tried to fix my headphones, but they were too far gone
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>>62196357
>it blows up
I mean the pencil lead.
I tried blowing up the auto pencil leads for fun putting tgem in parallel with the coil.
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>>62194116
retard
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>>62181362

Standard shit. Replaced capacitors in a power supply, in a CRT, a couple of motherboards and made a couple of ISA cards from kits. Probably the best was replacing capacitors inside my car's transmission control module - $8 worth of components instead of a $650 reconditioned unit.
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>>62195032
Handwired SLI circuitry from 3Dfx circa 1995. This is from an original Voodoo Graphics proto.
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I change the clickers in my mouse every half year.
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>>62183444
fantastic keycaps, where did you get those beauties?
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>>62181362
I replace BIOS chips on ThinkPads on occasion when Librebooting them.
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>>62199670
why tho?
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>>62181362
>Have you ever soldered before?
Yes, its a skill every man should have.
What did you do?
idk I fix shit and nigger rig stuff all the time. Its almost like welding in the sense that if you don't have something then you can just slap some shit together real fast, make it stick, and now you have a thing
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>>62194116

oh my god you are gigantic faggot.. the only thing that came with that kit was pcb and components... .. case and power supply had to be fabricated and machined by me

pulls an easy 115db on my measurement mic
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>>62181362
We did a bit of it in school. I had to assemble one of these dumb things with a led that turns on when you touch the two metal wires at the same time.
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>>62199883
Because they start double clicking/half clicking and I just rather use brand new clicks.
Its really easy to change it.
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>>62200128
>pcb and components
>built
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>>62200128
>power supply had to be fabricated and machined by me
Oh god.
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>>62201066
fair enough.
that is a good reason.
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>>62201066
Why not just buy some decent ones that actually last?
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>>62202984
Its a 6 year old mouse that I like the shape of, also my Pc is just used for watching afew hours of YouTube so buying a new one is not really worth it.
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>>62203122
I'm talking about decent click buttons. They must be pretty shit if they go bad in half a year with merely a few hours of light daily use.
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>>62203723
No I'm just a autismo who clicks alot and any slight difference triggers.
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