Oh man I've been soldering all wrong! Damn, I'm glad i stumbled onto Mike's channel and this video series, now i can get my soldering equipment and techniques down proper! Thanks Mike, you're the best! Cheers from Kevin in Louisiana.
Those hakkos are incredible, man. I know that Weller is sort of the industry standard for a lot of guys but I wouldn’t trade my hakko for basically anything (off the top of my head) for the kind of work I do
The iron stand with the clamp was used by Bell Telephone in offices with large long frames with wire connections from one side to the other. There were ladders on wheels with a rail connections at the top. Roll the ladder to the location clamp the iron stand to the rung and solder the connection. Every phone had two connections on each of two frames.
That's a Bell System soldering iron...I used one just like it as a frame worker. I spent my day running wire jumpers from the field side of the Main frame to the equipment side that provides dial tone.
I got an iron thru the internet to solder 2 wires together. For the life of me, I never would’ve guessed that tube thing is a “Solder Sucker”!!! Thanks for the info
If you get of the Weller gun type soldering guns, replace that crappy wire tip with 12 or 10 ga copper wire, minimal bent tip. It works killer you can form puddles of solder on a old school steel chassis. See the Mr. Carlson video with that info on that.
Some great tips! Also to note with soldering, it's always best to use the proper tip for job specific! And to use "no clean flux". I also have a RS solder stand, left over from my younger days of learning electronics hundreds of years ago, and like you I weighted it down! After our conversation about 60/40, I ordered 62/39 .32....waiting for it.... enjoy what you do Mike, keep it up!
Think you mean SN62 solder. 62+39=101, numbers should add up to 100. :) SN62 silver solder is a SN62 (tin) PB36 (lead) AG2 (silver) composition. Yep, tip size is very important. If someone plans on working on all three types or vintage of electronics (point to point, thru hole and SMD) then its a good idea to get a couple of different size tips.
Ooops, typo! :) I was thinking, maybe that big ol' horse leg of an iron you have, that's probably the best iron to do SMD work! Demo that in your upcoming video on the topic! :)
That's what I do in our repair shop, i filled the inside of the solder stand with stuff to weigh it down. It's easy to tip those over so I put some weight in it.
Thanks for the compliment. Was having serious doubts about using a tripod for camera work. I need to be able to move the camera around a good bit when doing radios. You would love my cobbled together mount I came up with. Its a standard mount (modified of course) but I stuck it on one of my bench microscope swing arm mounts. Its a old dental microscope with a swing arm attachment. Just pull the microscope head out and clamp on the mount. Ended up working out really well.
I tell you bro. It really helped the quality. Not that I had any problems before, but it was like watching a new person shooting videos. Well done. I felt the same way when I started out, thinking mounting the camera was going to limit what I was doing. But I have gotten many compliments on my video quality and camera work. Even though I am a noob lol.
Mike as usual another top quality video. This is one of the best I've seen on soldering tools. I've seen all the Pace and Nasa and every Tom Dick and Harry ones also. But this was very thorough and well explained. I like all the rest of your subscribers can't wait for the next episode. Good titling of episodes will also increase subscribers, as Google sweeps your site a good episode title Will attract many looking to learn.
Thanks for the compliment. The Pace videos are ok but mainly what I call "sales" videos. Nothing wrong with that, just advertising what they sell. Probably the best videos are by a Pace man but on his own RU-vid channel. Marc Seigel is his name and definitely has tin and lead for blood, a true soldering god. :)
i got the cheap knockoff , had to change everything down to cables and rubber pads , wire for cleaning spunge ,everything including electronic modification , but that is what we do , i ended up paying around 100$ for it , to get real stuff would take at least 300$ so i say avoid Chinese irons as well if you cant modify it and make it work like i did .
hi sir thanks you for your video. But where did you get your vacuum sucker pump? I look it on internet and on electronic store and there is absolutely nothing about " jensen pump". Do you have any provenance? thanks you
Alexander Hartdegen If you mean my large multiprocess machine it is made by Pace. They can run into several thousand dollars new depending on the size of the base unit and how many hand pieces you get. If you mean the simple solder sucker or sucker ball desoldering irons you can get them on Amazon or Ebay.
Poorly made clones of the real thing. Tips last nowhere close to as long as the real thing. For companies, the liability of using a non certified piece of equipment.
MikesRadioRepair I am very sorry for late response. Your soldering video is so good and has attention to minor details. I think you are a disciple of Marc siegel. I like pace too but for my hobby needs its way too expensive. Thank you for your response.
OK. I admit that I do not have an opinion about the above RU-vid or Patreon video. But it passes a little time, how shall I say, the Canadian way? Now I do not want to screw myself, which I may be doing. I am going to go ahead and attempt, no, in fact do a talk balk modification to a Uniden Pro 520 XL mobile CB radio
