Performing soldering surgery on a badly corroded Game Boy game!
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- In this video I fix a viewers copy of Kirby's Dreamland by repairing A LOT of corroded traces.
Tools used in this video
Tweezers. These ones are a bit pricey and alternatives do exisit but I have yet to find better quality ones and can't recommend these enough for this type of work. www.techni-too...
Soldering station I use. I have swapped out the iron that ships with it. www.amazon.com...
Recommended soldering station alternative with out hot air gun www.amazon.com...
Solderwick www.amazon.com...
Flux www.amazon.com...
Eraser pencil www.amazon.com...
Conformal coating www.ellsworth....
Solder www.amazon.com...
30 gauge wire www.amazon.com...
Surgical blade with handle www.amazon.com...
The PCB holder I'm using is 3d printed and the files can be found here www.thingivers...
Very nice work. I love the dedication to keeping it as original as possible. Personally, I would have just scrapped the original PCB after desoldering all the components, made some high res scans, and made a homemade new PCB to use instead to which I would put the original components on. I don't have the patience to try and solder every single one of those tiny traces. Again though, I love your dedication and watching it only leads to inspiration.
Thank you! :) I would love to design a copy PCB myself but for some reason, soldering is so much more fun lol.
High res scans to create a new PCB sounds amazing! Do you have any videos on exactly how one does this?
OG Kirby definitely deserves such a deep repair work, tank you for not destroying a game for a board swap.
Nice repair! I'm starting to really like your method of repairing these old games!
Thank you! It's been a lot of fun so far :)
A very nicely executed and highly skilled repair but I'd like to provide one constructive criticism if I may; the music in this video is too repetitive. It grates after a few minutes of hearing the same clapping noise. Could you find some different music to add to your videos?
Thank you :) as for the music, I really appreciate your input. I've been having trouble finding looping music to put in the background but for my next video I'll definitely switch it up.
@@Solder_king Awesome. Thanks for that, I look forward to the next video!
This was straight up wizardry. Well done
Solderwizard? Thanks :)
This isnt a repair, it's playable art and know this is a year old but I'm just now watching your channel. I hope to be on skull level one day. I have a 2 GBCs and a GBA that are dead and I'm practice on.
Awesome! I was just wondering how to fix a gba cartridge with a similar problem, this’ll definitely be a big help.
Dude nice job. Too many people are making videos about soldering and don’t even know about the IPC or even basic MILLSTD. I’ve done this myself with the pcbs I make and you are right for some reason it’s just so relaxing. I put on some opera or classical music and hours will disappear lol
I worked at Northrop and had plenty of training on top of what I already knew and it would be so cool if it were more accessible! I see some things that people do, like certain wire routes that make me cringe in class 3 lol. I may steal that classical music thing :) Thank you!
@@Solder_king I work for Tesla Industries as The PCB Production Manager we make dry felled batteries, gpu’s, inverters, and power conversion equipment for Aerospace and we do a lot of business with Northrop especially for the Tritons and Global Hawks that use our TI5400 400Hz UAV. We also make equipment that can put out 3000pA, 400A continuously (w/ac. About 9 hours off our batteries we make). We are working on a model that won’t need 3phase and work on 95v-480v so that our Trade Mark lmao “ Power any time, anywhere.” 😂😂
@@Solder_king Dry Celled*
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Great work repairing Kirby, I'm a new follower from your reddit post 😁
I've just taken to game repair myself so this video looks superhuman to me haha 😄
Awesome! :) Thank you for heading on over! Its a very fun hobby and in no time you'll be surprising yourself :)
Lots of work love your dedication.
Thank you very much :)
Hello, very well done! I would have a question that maybe you could answer? Have you ever experienced repairing for example like here a gameboy module and after 1 or 2 weeks, you notice that there is new corrosion (for example) at the legs of the chips? Is there a way to prevent this phenomena? I was pretty shocked when I saw this and am wondering now where the mistake was.... ?
Mesmerizing!
With this many bad traces, it's best to buy a donor junk game, swap the rom and done. I appreciate the effort here though.
Nice job man, do you do any sort of similar computer repair? I have a couple high end laptops that I know can be fixed, I just haven't found the right person. Used to have a friend who was a Vietnamese Solder Jedi, anyway, I'd be willing to pay whatever it takes to get these laptops back in action.
Hi, I have a question. I have a PL-6310 MW3 limited edition PS3 controller that wirelessly connects via a 2.4ghz receiver. Unfortunately I have lost the receiver, but is there possibly a way in which I can fix this? Maybe solder a new paired dongle of board and a receiver? I have tried connecting it via a charging port but unfortunately it's just a charging port and doesn't transfer any data, so the pc won't recognize it. I also tried force installing drivers in case it might get recognized but it wasn't. Any help would be gladly appreciated. Also if you want to check it out and maybe fix it yourself for a video, I can send it over, no problem.
that's a lot of soldering 👌🏾
but wouldn't be easier just swapping the chips to a donor board? 🤔
Yes! But as mentioned in the video, I find it more fun :D
Loved the video! I do have a technique question, no matter how much I try I can't get my solder wick to wick correctly. I use MGc solder wick so it's not the cheap stuff but I experience a lot of times that it seems the braid won't suck up any solder and sometimes almost fuses to pads. I do use a KSGER iron, is it my temps to high or too low? TIA
To make it sucks the solder, you must use good flux in the process. Sometimes it'll works without adding flux, but that's because the old solder must have some flux mixed with it, that will make it flows easier to the wick.
Now about it getting soldered to the pads, seems to me that your problem is low temperature, but there's a catch: if you're trying it in big pads, consider how well copper conducts heat. Big pads will "absorbs" all the heat from the iron and spread it, depending on how big the pad is, it'll even dissipate the heat to the air, making impossible to heat the solder itself.
Another tip: always remove all the old solder before soldering the new parts. Tin tends to form crystals that needs bigger temperatures to dissolve, and some of those inside the solder joint wil definitely leads to broken solder joints in the future.
Sorry for the too long of a text, but will add one last thing: I always use very hot irons (in my bench it starts with an 85W up to 450W irons).
It's tricky to solder with very hot irons, as they will rip off a pad very fast, but so will a colder iron that isn't putting enough heat to the job, because it'll take long time heating and destroying the pads.
With some practice, you'll get faster than the time the iron needs to destroy the pads.
Good luck sir.
Hi sir! Do you offer PS4 controller modding services? I’m looking for someone to double invert my right joystick axis.
Nice!
Thanks! :)
Your video doesn't have captions. Can you please add?
I'll try to add this weekend :)
Can you help me I screwed up on my gba motherboard and I want to know if you can fix it please
I love watching you, solder! We featured this one in this week's episode of The Electromaker Show! Check out what we had to say here: ruclips.net/video/0SjUDn8sO5A/видео.html
Wow! That's so awesome! I'll check it out now! Thank you! :D
Patience of mother Teresa, good job.
Truly does put patience to the test lol