I bought one of this tweezers and fail after second time use, maybe 5 minutes. I don't recomment at all. I can't find the heating element, my solution was the next. I change both heating elements for 24 volts 45 watts and use an old generic 936 soldering station for power up, now the tweezers come back to the life and works like a champ, inclusive better, I prefer to use isolated soldering irons. Best Regards.
At work, I had a 2nd soldering station, that I have use to desolder chip resistors and caps. That is also good, if you want to have a different solder tip ready to use. I think, those solder tweezers is something, that I wouldn‘t want to occupy space on my workbench,
Yeah that glue is crazy stuff, but usually the caps on the GG are easy to separate from it, but good luck removing the glue from the board. But even with other smd components the tweezers just can't supply enough heat to counter the heat escaping into the board
I have a set of Pace MT100 tweezers, they work very well and I've used them quite a lot for quick and easy rework on SMD parts but and it's a BIG butt they are about $600 just for the hand piece, stand and one set of interchangeable tips. The controller is on top of that. I've got a number of different tips from very fine to 2cm wide and it works as well as the iron. Just for once the JBC ones at work are actually cheaper thank my tools at home lol. Thanks for the review.
Thanks for this. Ive been tempted to get tweezers now and then but wondered how effective they are. The tips are a huge bottleneck for heat conduction.
I think that to de-solder / solder discrete components, this tweezers helps a lot, but it is dangerous in smd components (like capacitors) that cannot take a lot of temperature.
Thanks for the review. The tips aren't great. Are there other cheap alternativer. I saw one on RS. The thermal design of the tips looked better.. I don't know if it was a board for parts, but I think you soldered a cap in reverse. I think...
Thanks bwack, yes I did put a cap in backwards, don't worry I took it off straight afterwards. Yeah I think a combination of the thermal design and also the low power rating result in poor heat conduction. I haven't really bothered looking for an alternative, I'm used to just using a regular soldering iron for smd stuff anyway
Now this is a good and honest review! Looked at several of them today but this is the first one showing the actual downside(s) of this thing! Big groundplanes are a no go. Also.....is it just me or is this thing huge? The handles I mean.... At work I've used a weller tweezer and currently using a JBC one. I know it's a whole other price range, but this both are nice and small and looking it this thing makes me feel the handle is really bulky.
Thanks. Yes the handles are pretty chunky. I've not bothered with this thing since filming this video, but yeah if I were to get another it would be from a decent brand. Most if not all of the other people reviewing this thing were sent it for free from banggood, I'm the only sucker who paid for it
@@TheRetroChannel well I saw this thing and hesitated about buying it. Now I know this isn't the thing for me. Better to save up and invest in a jbc one like the ones at work (different price range but definitly worth the money)
Fair point and yes I did later try it out with some 0805 size SMD components and the results were hit and miss. Again it seemed to depend on how much heat got absorbed by the board.
i dont think those tips are easy to find so when they r worn you throw all the thing thats why i ll never buy one , at least till i can get the tips easly
Can confirm. I have them, I am barely using them. Instead I use 2 separate proper irons, or air.
That's great! I purchased the same ones a few years ago -- same result -- I haven't found an everyday bench use for them yet.
Yep, they are currently sitting back in the same place they were before this video - under the bench, probably never to be touched again
@@TheRetroChannel They have to be good for something. We'll figure it out.
As Dr Dave suggested in another comment, they're good for cooking stuff in half the time
7:30 Cook in half the time by cooking from both ends! :)
Thanks for the look at this device, Mark - I didn't know about them.
I bought one of this tweezers and fail after second time use, maybe 5 minutes.
I don't recomment at all.
I can't find the heating element, my solution was the next.
I change both heating elements for 24 volts 45 watts and use an old generic 936 soldering station for power up, now the tweezers come back to the life and works like a champ, inclusive better, I prefer to use isolated soldering irons.
Best Regards.
At work, I had a 2nd soldering station, that I have use to desolder chip resistors and caps. That is also good, if you want to have a different solder tip ready to use. I think, those solder tweezers is something, that I wouldn‘t want to occupy space on my workbench,
The square capacitors on the Game Gear are glued down in addition to being soldered down, that might explain the problems you’ve seen.
Yeah that glue is crazy stuff, but usually the caps on the GG are easy to separate from it, but good luck removing the glue from the board. But even with other smd components the tweezers just can't supply enough heat to counter the heat escaping into the board
I have a set of Pace MT100 tweezers, they work very well and I've used them quite a lot for quick and easy rework on SMD parts but and it's a BIG butt they are about $600 just for the hand piece, stand and one set of interchangeable tips. The controller is on top of that. I've got a number of different tips from very fine to 2cm wide and it works as well as the iron. Just for once the JBC ones at work are actually cheaper thank my tools at home lol. Thanks for the review.
Do you know the pinout of the Pace MT100 tweezers? or where i could find it
Thanks for this. Ive been tempted to get tweezers now and then but wondered how effective they are. The tips are a huge bottleneck for heat conduction.
I think that to de-solder / solder discrete components, this tweezers helps a lot, but it is dangerous in smd components (like capacitors) that cannot take a lot of temperature.
Thanks for the review. The tips aren't great. Are there other cheap alternativer. I saw one on RS. The thermal design of the tips looked better.. I don't know if it was a board for parts, but I think you soldered a cap in reverse. I think...
Thanks bwack, yes I did put a cap in backwards, don't worry I took it off straight afterwards. Yeah I think a combination of the thermal design and also the low power rating result in poor heat conduction.
I haven't really bothered looking for an alternative, I'm used to just using a regular soldering iron for smd stuff anyway
Now this is a good and honest review! Looked at several of them today but this is the first one showing the actual downside(s) of this thing!
Big groundplanes are a no go.
Also.....is it just me or is this thing huge?
The handles I mean....
At work I've used a weller tweezer and currently using a JBC one.
I know it's a whole other price range, but this both are nice and small and looking it this thing makes me feel the handle is really bulky.
Thanks. Yes the handles are pretty chunky.
I've not bothered with this thing since filming this video, but yeah if I were to get another it would be from a decent brand. Most if not all of the other people reviewing this thing were sent it for free from banggood, I'm the only sucker who paid for it
@@TheRetroChannel well I saw this thing and hesitated about buying it.
Now I know this isn't the thing for me.
Better to save up and invest in a jbc one like the ones at work (different price range but definitly worth the money)
There is nothing worse than an uncooperative camera. I filmed an entire kit built without audio... was not happy.
Oh yeah that really sucks when you film something that can't be undone for a 2nd take
YEE-HAW
I wonder how they would work on removing SMD resisters?
Fair point and yes I did later try it out with some 0805 size SMD components and the results were hit and miss. Again it seemed to depend on how much heat got absorbed by the board.
@@TheRetroChannel Thanks for the reply. I guess this one is a definite pass.
Muito bom
I tossed mine. Utter garbage!
i dont think those tips are easy to find so when they r worn you throw all the thing thats why i ll never buy one , at least till i can get the tips easly