Soldering best practices: heat the joint, not the solder
The wiki page I link in every thread where someone shows a cold joint. Temperature, dwell time, flux, and why your joints look like grey blobs.
The wiki page I link in every thread where someone shows a cold joint. Temperature, dwell time, flux, and why your joints look like grey blobs.
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Can confirm, the cheap part is the one that fails. Replaced mine twice before reading this.
Should be the same procedure, the part moved slightly but the steps match.
Tried this over the weekend and it worked first time. Thanks for writing it up properly.
Followed along, got it done in about twice the time quoted, but it is done and it works.
Glad it helped.
Solid. Sending this to my brother who keeps asking me to fix his.
Nice. What did the whole thing end up costing you?
Can confirm, the cheap part is the one that fails. Replaced mine twice before reading this.
Should be the same procedure, the part moved slightly but the steps match.
Would this work on the older model? Mine is about ten years older than the one shown.
Unplug it. Always. Takes two seconds and the worst case otherwise is a trip to the ER.