Good size US cleaner. I use one with Evaporust for small parts. Evaporust works good on its on but the US cleaner supercharges it. If I have a really small tool or piece I put a small amount of evaporust in a small ziplock container and place it in the pool of water. Good way of conserving a chemical you are using.
A tip for removing integrated circuits that I use sometimes.... with a "pointy" cutter, cut the pins next to the body of the IC then de-solder each pin individually. Thanks for the video!
It is an excellent way to remove an IC. It is so much easier individually on a thick board, for sure. Unfortunately, most of the time it's very little room left around the pins to work with. Thanks for sharing!
A couple tips for that desolder gun: Pre-heat the joint with your higher wattage iron so that it will melt all the way through. Pinch the hose and hold the trigger to build up suction the release so it will remove all the solder at once. Otherwise it removes solder from the bottom while the suction builds, breaking your heat bridge to the other side and causing it to solidify while you are still trying to pull.
Thanks, this Desoldering gun has no hose it is the cheaper built-in pump style, but it works fine, and I have shown it working fine on single layers boards in the past. I simply brought it out just to show how thick and difficult this board was going to be without just saying it. Tried to add some real visual clues in case it helps someone struggling with a thicker board. It is a big difference in boards sometimes, and it's not easy to reflect that on camera. I should have still explained it better, it seems.
Oh, man… it really didn’t look like the self-contained/portable desolder guns since it didn’t have a big motor on the back like Hakko 808 or FR301. Looked more like a ZD-915 or something. Yeah, I was reading you loud and clear about your intentions, I just thought you might’ve been able to pull it off with that anyway on a thick PCB with a few more tricks… like I’ve been forced to do several times. One example was when desoldering the analog AV port on an original 2001 XBOX to install XBOX HDMI. I needed to hold it upside-down, preheat with an iron, and grow a third hand to do the pinch technique for a dozen or so ground/power pins. Without these tricks my Aoyue Int801A++ barely works on two sided plated thru hole boards even though that’s exactly what I bought it for. That’s why I stubbornly kept at it until I learned the tricks and techniques I needed to pull it off anyway.
@emmettturner9452 I know what you mean. I have been there for sure. I could have used my hot air also to assist. I was just not sure if most people would have that on hand to assist and wanted to share how the low temperature solder can save the day at times. Thanks for sharing!
Would this likely have been caused by a surge, or a brownout? I’m looking at a Branson cleaner locally to me(that is working), but I want to ensure I can protect the circuitry as best as possible. I run my computer and through an APC line conditioner/battery backup unit, but I would likely keep this unit unpowered/unplugged when not in use.
We had the worst storm our area had ever seen with Helene. The damage was very significant in the entire area and the Power lines were truly in the roads for miles. So we had a very usual power situation and many devices I worked on the last few months were from that storm with power damages from spikes and brown outs all the above for much longer than typical blip or 2. I just wanted to make sure it was clear that this was very unusual. So using a surge suppressor and unplugging when not in use is an excellent idea for sure.
@@ThriftyToolShedI’m in no way an electrical guy, but I do have a fascination with electrical theory and keeping good tools “in action” instead of replacing like so many do in todays “just buy another one” society. I love manual knobs and polar switches, compared to the squishy buttons which love to go out unexpectedly 😂. Here in Los Angeles we get our own grid issues as well, but major water intrusion usually isn’t one of them. Thank you for your video, this was the first video from your channel I’ve watched, and I’ve just subscribed 🙂
i miss this kind of work. before retiring i used to do troubleshooting, repair, building pcb, building test equipment for cat and msd
Sounds fun for sure!
Good size US cleaner. I use one with Evaporust for small parts. Evaporust works good on its on but the US cleaner supercharges it. If I have a really small tool or piece I put a small amount of evaporust in a small ziplock container and place it in the pool of water. Good way of conserving a chemical you are using.
Another great video! Awesome job of troubleshooting, especially with no schematic! Thank you Philip! God bless.
Thanks so much for your kind comment! God bless you as well!
A tip for removing integrated circuits that I use sometimes.... with a "pointy" cutter, cut the pins next to the body of the IC then de-solder each pin individually.
Thanks for the video!
It is an excellent way to remove an IC. It is so much easier individually on a thick board, for sure. Unfortunately, most of the time it's very little room left around the pins to work with. Thanks for sharing!
A couple tips for that desolder gun: Pre-heat the joint with your higher wattage iron so that it will melt all the way through. Pinch the hose and hold the trigger to build up suction the release so it will remove all the solder at once. Otherwise it removes solder from the bottom while the suction builds, breaking your heat bridge to the other side and causing it to solidify while you are still trying to pull.
Thanks, this Desoldering gun has no hose it is the cheaper built-in pump style, but it works fine, and I have shown it working fine on single layers boards in the past. I simply brought it out just to show how thick and difficult this board was going to be without just saying it. Tried to add some real visual clues in case it helps someone struggling with a thicker board. It is a big difference in boards sometimes, and it's not easy to reflect that on camera. I should have still explained it better, it seems.
Oh, man… it really didn’t look like the self-contained/portable desolder guns since it didn’t have a big motor on the back like Hakko 808 or FR301. Looked more like a ZD-915 or something.
Yeah, I was reading you loud and clear about your intentions, I just thought you might’ve been able to pull it off with that anyway on a thick PCB with a few more tricks… like I’ve been forced to do several times. One example was when desoldering the analog AV port on an original 2001 XBOX to install XBOX HDMI. I needed to hold it upside-down, preheat with an iron, and grow a third hand to do the pinch technique for a dozen or so ground/power pins.
Without these tricks my Aoyue Int801A++ barely works on two sided plated thru hole boards even though that’s exactly what I bought it for. That’s why I stubbornly kept at it until I learned the tricks and techniques I needed to pull it off anyway.
@emmettturner9452
I know what you mean. I have been there for sure. I could have used my hot air also to assist. I was just not sure if most people would have that on hand to assist and wanted to share how the low temperature solder can save the day at times. Thanks for sharing!
Would this likely have been caused by a surge, or a brownout? I’m looking at a Branson cleaner locally to me(that is working), but I want to ensure I can protect the circuitry as best as possible. I run my computer and through an APC line conditioner/battery backup unit, but I would likely keep this unit unpowered/unplugged when not in use.
We had the worst storm our area had ever seen with Helene. The damage was very significant in the entire area and the Power lines were truly in the roads for miles. So we had a very usual power situation and many devices I worked on the last few months were from that storm with power damages from spikes and brown outs all the above for much longer than typical blip or 2. I just wanted to make sure it was clear that this was very unusual. So using a surge suppressor and unplugging when not in use is an excellent idea for sure.
@@ThriftyToolShedI’m in no way an electrical guy, but I do have a fascination with electrical theory and keeping good tools “in action” instead of replacing like so many do in todays “just buy another one” society. I love manual knobs and polar switches, compared to the squishy buttons which love to go out unexpectedly 😂. Here in Los Angeles we get our own grid issues as well, but major water intrusion usually isn’t one of them. Thank you for your video, this was the first video from your channel I’ve watched, and I’ve just subscribed 🙂
Thanks so much!