It is the most amazing and beautiful manual surface mount soldering I have ever saw. The word professional is not enough to define such an amazing work.
wow... superb work! I hate surface mount because it's so impossible to work on unless one has the prodigious tools/equipment you do! Thanks for showing what a true pro has to do the job!
Thing of beauty and a joy forever. Not having these skills and tools keeps me from doing simple repairs on my transceiver. This is the beginning of an end to being hamstrung in that way.
I never seen a tool that suck up the solder like that ,I have a year blower,and I have a soldering pen that sucks up solder but one item at a time ,what cleaner was used with Kim whose ,but he's a perfect job as it gets,very clean .
Thank you very much for making this video. I'm writing an article for our local amateur-radio club's newsletter on how to "unbrick a wireless router" by unsoldering the nvram, reprogramming it, and then soldering it back into place. I am using your video as a tutorial reference on how to do it correctly. Please pardon my novice question, but before you resoldered the new chip in place at 2:09, had you already applied flux to the pads? If so, what was the "make & model" of the flux? Thank you!
Unbelievable. How such a micro soldering is possible by hand. 8-) More than amazing! ! I m very good @ soldering ,bt I thnk for ths I need lot more experience. :-( :-(
Great! I've watched 1/2 dozen YT SMD soldering videos with multipin ICs. Now would someone please demonstrate how to solder the SMD resistors & caps that aren't much larger than a grain of sand?🤔
I've been trying to find the same rework station as you are using in these videos but it seems that the WR3000M set is discontinued. which set would you recommend for the same options and performance as the WR3000M set up you have in your videos?
Will Kapton tape protect plastic parts on the board? I may need to do this in much tighter quarters soon (and one of the surrounding parts is a plastic connector).
Ha, I sucked up T/H pads with a desoldering iron on my first use, then I had to cut new ones from copper foil, which meant buying foil, uv cure epoxy, uv lamp... The item under repair was only £50. There's a Weller micro mini wave tip? What's its code?
+Alexander Janusz - That was heavy duty aluminum foil. In an actual rework environment I will spray the foil first with an anti stat spray to protect against ESD. I will also be grounded with a wrist strap. Anyone who does not use Kapton, polyimide or shielding during component replacement subjects all adjacent components to thermal stress, reflow and chip misorientation or blow off from the pads. If you want high reliability, USE SHIELDING.
False, that's barely above 300C, 99% of the modern IC will easily withstand 400C as long as the hot air gun is properly rotated... Don't comment on stuff you've got no clues about.
Why you are using flux for non contact desoldering? By my opinion you are using small nozzle. Lifting not enough heated chip is not good way, you can damage pcb pad. Better way is gently pushing chip to the side as indicator of released chip.
