You can drastically reduce the probability of pins not soldering onto the board correctly by using the soldering iron to cover the pins with solder before you hot-air-solder the connector onto the board. This is good practice particularly for the hidden pins under the connector.
@JopieHaargel sorry I was only talking about Stez. Honestly, I'm sure we all watch similar repair youtubers. Out them all Stezstix just has best production value in my mind. Hes got great personality/entertains/Solid solder joints/good comedian and raps for God sakes lol. All while repairing random stuff. I definitely appreciate his videos.
I so much would love to fix a nintendo switch, I've never had one, so I'd love to get one broken and then fix it. All the repairs are something I so much love.
The first replacement port seemed fine, and it's possible that the battery was just over-discharged. It looked like the battery had some protection in place and was slowly recovering, kind of like a 'wake-up' process.
I went to school for electronics repair 25 years ago and have an assistant degree in electronics technology and have been repairing mostly musical equipment for the past 30 years now. You did a good job. My only criticism is that I would have changed the two smd caps, they are probably bad, just not bad enough to be grossly out of speck. As a Morrison, thanks for singing my cousin Jim's song on key at the end.
I just wanted to let you know that I love your videos. They're always so entertaining (and also informative-I put them on to keep me company while I work on my own electronics. I just recently got into fixing up old electronics and there's so much to learn, but I learn a lot just watching how you identify and solve problems with the things you work on)
Hey I really appreciate your videos. You're a huge source of inspiration for me getting into soldering. I got myself a little station and I'm building up my arsenal, putting together kits for my friends. I've built radios, Bluetooth speakers, random projects... My end goal is to be able to repair old consoles and things as a hobby. I'd really like to mod an old ps2 with an SD card slot and hdmi out... I think I might be good enough to do that soon!
Good display of problem solving and logical thinking even though we may not be trained electricians we can still use our limited knowledge to our advantage! That partial short is pretty confusing, would be good to see if they're all like that.
I have never soldered anything in my life. This, is the exact reason I will begin my soldering journey. The exact same problem plagues my switch lite (same color too!). Thanks for the video!
@@talon12020 I have kids. I'm guessing they dropped it while they were charging it because they port only works if I manipulate the USB-C cable in a way for it to make "contact". I'm assuming I've if the solder points on the USB C is not "solid" but, I need more equipment to find out.
love the song. I think hot dropping port with anchor points pre-soldered is a mistake though. Kinda hit or miss sometimes, and if not heat soaked long enough with the port in place (getting the port to same temperature as board), can cause cracked solder joints over time. It's more reliable to just solder the anchor points with a soldering iron after you've secured the pins first (pre-tinning the port pins helps a lot too). Regardless of how I personally feel about port dropping, you did an excellent job, absolutely love your video's, keep them coming!
I've loved all your content for a long time. Funny how much time has passed. I love the youtube plaque behind you. You deserve it and more. You're videos have become so much better over the years and I won't be surprised if you become one of the top youtube channels someday.
Not gonna lie, that was the first of Steve's songs I've not jumped ahead on for a long, long time. Loved this vid, excellent work and top-drawer as ever. Thank you.
That music section gave me life. Thank you for that. Also thank you for the video. Could you do one on replacement of the left and/or right analog sticks please? I trust YOUR videos more than anyone elses on YT
Holy shit. How do you find the time to maintain a RUclips channel while simultaneously coming up with lyrics about your Patreons week after week? I can barely muster up the energy to get out of bed every day. Respect!
you sir, are a master solderer! aside from the fact that now, when i smd solder, i find myself saying "solid" (lowering my voice of course) and "nice", i've learned a lot since watching you from the beginning, and i have improved quite a bit. thanks for all! keep up the great work. ( and i always look forward to the rap, don't let anybody tell you otherwise.)
I never skip the patreon song... but todays? Excellent. Loved it. Like, no particular affection to any musical genre, it was just fun to have something new!
That was a "solid" amount of thermal paste you put there. 😜 Great to see another stupid thing brought back to life. Also digging the new musical style at the beginning.
I wonder if your battery was in sleep/recovery mode. It was completely discharged and if it had been for a while the battery chip turns itself off completely to avoid destroying the battery through self discharge. When this is the case it will start taking a tiny charge (like 0.01A) just to turn on the battery's circuitry and begin trying to charge the battery. If it can recover the charge in an appropriate way it then charges with more and more current until it can charge normally. If it doesn't charge normally it shuts down. That's pretty much what we saw, except that it worked the second or third time you tried.
I never skip the songs, and this was worth it! Great video too. I like how “suddenly stopped charging” translates to “I wrecked the port” most of the time.
I though I saw the solder on the left part of the port was so close (not sure if touching) the first pin. Also, what a nice parody of the perfect amount of TP from Tronix Fix jajaja love it
Have to say that I really love your videos. You have way more courage than I have and I work in designing electronics 😁For future I would invest in getting soldering paste. You cleaned the pads really well for the connector. If you'd then applied some solder paste on them, maybe all pins would have become 'solid'. But great work there!
Wouldn't the tiny shavings of metal from the dremel disc and USB port go all over that motherboard? Probably should have covered it up? Other than that, great video and great fix as per usual 👍
Freindly advice. Some times the screen just blacks out. I had a charger indicating charge was going into the switch, but the switch was black. Held power and volume - and the switch rebooted.
Instead of grinding the port down when I fixed one of these for my kids a few years ago I used needle files to make the port hole in the shell slightly larger. Then it fit the standard usb c port fine and once assembled you can barely tell the difference.
I did the reset button you showed in your video a few times and took my game and SD card out. and left my switch along a few hours and my brother came in and I told him my switch wasn't working and I turned on the switch it was working again thanks for the tips. I was worried that I had to buy a new switch.
there was some shorted components on the left and after the chip change they were fixed, the usb port when it breaks shorts and damages that component almost always
Great work Steve! Only thing I'd recommend you do differently is that viscous red thermal paste ontop of the heatpipe shouldn't be replaced with normal thermal paste. I recommend K5 Pro for that.
You are so dam talented! That song was great. I really think you should write material with Johnny Vegas or something, you could do more than repair electronics, you’re hilarious 😆
So I watched this a few times 😂 great video. I think it's because you had solder so close to the first pin it could have bridge first pin with ground. Probably wrong but thought I would say lol 😂
I’ve always wondered how much of the alignment of the chips is the manual placement, and how much of it is the surface tension of the liquid state of the solder pulling it into position….
You can never have too much practice with replacing ports :D Do you think you could provide links to your USB-C tester, microscope stand, and your flat PCB holder please? Thanks!
Made me nervous while using the hot air on the chip. So many little components around. I'd recommend a little less air pressure and a bit more patience, would be safer for the components around to not go flying. And aligning the chip would be easier. Unless, you want to go on a hunt for a needle in the haystack, that is :D Keep up the good stuff, enjoyable as always! :)
Hi Steve 👋! Thanks for your video 😊) I'm from Ukraine, and let's check how much Ukrainian are here, and watching your video! If you are from Ukraine, like this comment! Thanks. Thanks UK for supporting us in this difficult time.
Stupid 23 Ohm Short.
Nice work Steve btw what flux do you use.
@stezstixfix what kind of tackle box is that
i cant imagine why anyone would skip the songs. theyre always fun. love these videos man!
Makes you wonder why none of the other electronics repair RUclipsrs sing in their videos. Filling a niche?
Love the song, the repair and the incorrect amount of thermal paste!!! Awesome job as usual!!!! 🐺😁
You can drastically reduce the probability of pins not soldering onto the board correctly by using the soldering iron to cover the pins with solder before you hot-air-solder the connector onto the board. This is good practice particularly for the hidden pins under the connector.
Steve got the best repair vids you get it all with his.
He doesn't apply the correct amount of thermal paste but we all still love him.
Isn't the Tronicsfix guy also called Steve...?
ITYM perfect
@JopieHaargel sorry I was only talking about Stez. Honestly, I'm sure we all watch similar repair youtubers. Out them all Stezstix just has best production value in my mind. Hes got great personality/entertains/Solid solder joints/good comedian and raps for God sakes lol. All while repairing random stuff. I definitely appreciate his videos.
@@JopieHaargel He is but he's also incredibly cringe
LAL steve is cringe asf
I so much would love to fix a nintendo switch, I've never had one, so I'd love to get one broken and then fix it. All the repairs are something I so much love.
The first replacement port seemed fine, and it's possible that the battery was just over-discharged. It looked like the battery had some protection in place and was slowly recovering, kind of like a 'wake-up' process.
Yeah, the switch does weird thing with the battery once it's overdischarged. i'm pretty sure you're right.
@@SaitoGray I’m so o
Then how was the m92 chip still shorted at the caps there had to be a bridge that wasn't visible
Honestly I would love to see you doing more covers over the normal rap that was bloody brilliant mate.
I went to school for electronics repair 25 years ago and have an assistant degree in electronics technology and have been repairing mostly musical equipment for the past 30 years now. You did a good job. My only criticism is that I would have changed the two smd caps, they are probably bad, just not bad enough to be grossly out of speck. As a Morrison, thanks for singing my cousin Jim's song on key at the end.
I just wanted to let you know that I love your videos. They're always so entertaining (and also informative-I put them on to keep me company while I work on my own electronics. I just recently got into fixing up old electronics and there's so much to learn, but I learn a lot just watching how you identify and solve problems with the things you work on)
Totally awesome. I’m at a loss as to how this channel only has 109k subs.
Hey I really appreciate your videos. You're a huge source of inspiration for me getting into soldering. I got myself a little station and I'm building up my arsenal, putting together kits for my friends. I've built radios, Bluetooth speakers, random projects... My end goal is to be able to repair old consoles and things as a hobby. I'd really like to mod an old ps2 with an SD card slot and hdmi out... I think I might be good enough to do that soon!
That first shot of usb port removal was trully artistic. Well done Steve!
what a diQlicker HA HA!
That deadpan stare into the camera - incorrect amount of thermal paste, indeed! Loved it!
Good display of problem solving and logical thinking even though we may not be trained electricians we can still use our limited knowledge to our advantage! That partial short is pretty confusing, would be good to see if they're all like that.
I have never soldered anything in my life. This, is the exact reason I will begin my soldering journey. The exact same problem plagues my switch lite (same color too!). Thanks for the video!
I have to ask, just how did you damage the charging port?
@@talon12020 I have kids. I'm guessing they dropped it while they were charging it because they port only works if I manipulate the USB-C cable in a way for it to make "contact". I'm assuming I've if the solder points on the USB C is not "solid" but, I need more equipment to find out.
love the song. I think hot dropping port with anchor points pre-soldered is a mistake though. Kinda hit or miss sometimes, and if not heat soaked long enough with the port in place (getting the port to same temperature as board), can cause cracked solder joints over time. It's more reliable to just solder the anchor points with a soldering iron after you've secured the pins first (pre-tinning the port pins helps a lot too). Regardless of how I personally feel about port dropping, you did an excellent job, absolutely love your video's, keep them coming!
I've loved all your content for a long time. Funny how much time has passed. I love the youtube plaque behind you. You deserve it and more. You're videos have become so much better over the years and I won't be surprised if you become one of the top youtube channels someday.
Home made YT channels, that are this good, are few and far between !
Not gonna lie, that was the first of Steve's songs I've not jumped ahead on for a long, long time. Loved this vid, excellent work and top-drawer as ever. Thank you.
RIP Harry Chapin - took from us far too early. Very nice cover Steve - well done!
gotta love the references you do of other tech repair channels, keep it up
Yeah - quite a community they have :)
That music section gave me life. Thank you for that. Also thank you for the video. Could you do one on replacement of the left and/or right analog sticks please? I trust YOUR videos more than anyone elses on YT
Holy shit. How do you find the time to maintain a RUclips channel while simultaneously coming up with lyrics about your Patreons week after week? I can barely muster up the energy to get out of bed every day. Respect!
Best intro song yet, top marks.
I love the new song style. I hope you do it once in a while alongside your normal! Great video
you sir, are a master solderer! aside from the fact that now, when i smd solder, i find myself saying "solid" (lowering my voice of course) and "nice", i've learned a lot since watching you from the beginning, and i have improved quite a bit. thanks for all! keep up the great work. ( and i always look forward to the rap, don't let anybody tell you otherwise.)
Dude that song was genius. Love your work and your style. Thanks for great content and ingenuity. From Victoria Australia
I never skip the patreon song... but todays? Excellent. Loved it. Like, no particular affection to any musical genre, it was just fun to have something new!
That was a "solid" amount of thermal paste you put there. 😜 Great to see another stupid thing brought back to life. Also digging the new musical style at the beginning.
😅 thanks Heidi! 👍
I cannot skip the song! EVER! I hope you perform at your pub
I would suggest folks get JSTD001 cert for soldering. Goes a long way! There’s a rework one too. IPC 7711/7721.
You've got both kinds of music here: Country and Western! 🤩❤
This Patreon song is so much better then the rap, keep it up! Also love the video :)
Once again, a great video :) best part is always when you're like 'this should do it' and I see there is 8 mins left in the video...
I love the dub you made of "A horse with no name"! Awesome!
I wonder if your battery was in sleep/recovery mode. It was completely discharged and if it had been for a while the battery chip turns itself off completely to avoid destroying the battery through self discharge. When this is the case it will start taking a tiny charge (like 0.01A) just to turn on the battery's circuitry and begin trying to charge the battery. If it can recover the charge in an appropriate way it then charges with more and more current until it can charge normally. If it doesn't charge normally it shuts down. That's pretty much what we saw, except that it worked the second or third time you tried.
I love when you rip on Tronixfix, makes my day every time!! Great HHG song as well!!
I love watching these right before I work on my own videos. Always puts me in a great mood.
Please give us more of the high pitched speech muppet guy. I love it so much. Congrats on another great Repair.
I never skip the songs, and this was worth it! Great video too. I like how “suddenly stopped charging” translates to “I wrecked the port” most of the time.
You should record an album....in regards to the switch, excellent fix. Always enjoy your videos
Awesome music in this one Steve
Love the 80th synth music that reminds me of Ember Jensen
I though I saw the solder on the left part of the port was so close (not sure if touching) the first pin. Also, what a nice parody of the perfect amount of TP from Tronix Fix jajaja love it
Could watch you videos for the dismantle song alone :D love them all!!!
New music goes hard. I admit I used to be a skipper, but not now.
Damn I'm really digging this patreon jam.
One of my favourite songs on this one. Beats a rap!
Great video. Your subtle frustrations are very relatable in the way I approach my repairs. 😂 Thank you for sharing.
best song so far, love ya work
Nice fix Steve you do a fabulous job with all the items you do😊
Hey Steve, great video, as usual.
Just wanted to ask what flux you are using. I have never seen such clear flux and I want to get this too 😀
Have to say that I really love your videos. You have way more courage than I have and I work in designing electronics 😁For future I would invest in getting soldering paste. You cleaned the pads really well for the connector. If you'd then applied some solder paste on them, maybe all pins would have become 'solid'. But great work there!
Absolutely loved every second of that we honestly need a movie titled Steve the Legendary repairer of things.
Hi, at drop method always tin the pins port also for good bonding = solid
Best song yet Steve, great work. You make it look so easy.
Great job. Loved the new song and you can only end with monkey Joe Tokyo! Anyone else is just wrong
Such good fun these clips and more innuendos please :)
love the Patreon song and a nice fix
Too much paste is fine. Too little is the only problem ever. 👍 Great work!
"This is where I wish I knew more things." I love it.
Wouldn't the tiny shavings of metal from the dremel disc and USB port go all over that motherboard? Probably should have covered it up? Other than that, great video and great fix as per usual 👍
Why watch this channel if you skip the music? Amazing stuff as always
VOS was on fire 🤠!
The best feel-good(f) channel on the interweb!
Ok, if you do an REM "End Of The World As We Know It" version, I promise I won't skip it. :)
I love the aidetek boxes...
The smoke reminded me of the basement in that 70's show :D
Freindly advice. Some times the screen just blacks out. I had a charger indicating charge was going into the switch, but the switch was black. Held power and volume - and the switch rebooted.
Thanks for another fun video to watch!!
I love that call back to tronics fix lol !
good job Steve, but im gonna have to dock you points for putting the correct amount of thermal paste 😎
So glad this is the first time i didnt skip the song. I dont get condemned and i got to witness that beautiful pop country
Instead of grinding the port down when I fixed one of these for my kids a few years ago I used needle files to make the port hole in the shell slightly larger. Then it fit the standard usb c port fine and once assembled you can barely tell the difference.
I did the reset button you showed in your video a few times and took my game and SD card out. and left my switch along a few hours and my brother came in and I told him my switch wasn't working and I turned on the switch it was working again thanks for the tips. I was worried that I had to buy a new switch.
Music was out of this world. Nice.
Nice repair. The change of chip was probably unnecessary, no?
there was some shorted components on the left and after the chip change they were fixed, the usb port when it breaks shorts and damages that component almost always
Great work Steve! Only thing I'd recommend you do differently is that viscous red thermal paste ontop of the heatpipe shouldn't be replaced with normal thermal paste. I recommend K5 Pro for that.
Dude, the incorrect amount of thermal paste was killing me. What a great gibe to Tronix Fix.
You are so dam talented! That song was great. I really think you should write material with Johnny Vegas or something, you could do more than repair electronics, you’re hilarious 😆
best part was the eye contact for the "incorrect amount of thermal paste" lmao!
Love the music change!
So I watched this a few times 😂 great video. I think it's because you had solder so close to the first pin it could have bridge first pin with ground. Probably wrong but thought I would say lol 😂
Another interesting fix there Steve 👍
That song was epic!!! "If you're still here, thank you. But if you skipped..." I laughed too much at that! 🤣
I’ve always wondered how much of the alignment of the chips is the manual placement, and how much of it is the surface tension of the liquid state of the solder pulling it into position….
I love that song what you were singing!
"Stümpern für Fortgeschrittene" - could be the name of a course I visit everyday :D
That HHG song was pretty epic.
I never knew I needed high speed Dremel sounds in my life until now
Thanks. Step number 2 worked. I was panicking…. Can’t afford another oled switch now…
You can never have too much practice with replacing ports :D
Do you think you could provide links to your USB-C tester, microscope stand, and your flat PCB holder please?
Thanks!
Genius songs, sarcasm & humour Whats not to like !
That went from, "Sure, I should be able to help you with that" to "You owe me $80" real quick!
Loved your song this week
Made me nervous while using the hot air on the chip. So many little components around. I'd recommend a little less air pressure and a bit more patience, would be safer for the components around to not go flying. And aligning the chip would be easier. Unless, you want to go on a hunt for a needle in the haystack, that is :D
Keep up the good stuff, enjoyable as always! :)
Totally agree. Patience is never my strong point 😅
awesome song and awesome vid!
Hi Steve 👋! Thanks for your video 😊)
I'm from Ukraine, and let's check how much Ukrainian are here, and watching your video! If you are from Ukraine, like this comment! Thanks.
Thanks UK for supporting us in this difficult time.
I love watching your video’s, inspired me to have a go fixing electronics, slowly getting there , anyway hi from st helens