Greetings from Dubai. Over here attending the ITU WRC-23 conference - not cold here ;-) Did the electrolytic capacitor replacement on my TS-830s as well as some other maintenance last year. Felt good to get that done to the 42 year old gal. Next project is to do some clean-up work on the band switches and then a full realignment. Lots of bells and whistles on the new radios that I would like, but the TS-830s still performs great after all these years and continues to serve me well.
Halloween! Do you like to make a whole bunch of videos in bulk, set them to release on a daily schedule, and then take breaks here and there? Would make it a lot easier to go on vacations with the Mrs!
Hi, always enjoy your videos. You keep them in nice bite size chunks not to lose your audience. I wish you would explain your techniques for soldering and de-soldering as well anything else we would benefit from. It only needs to be done once at the beginning even if you have other videos dedicated to soldering. I noticed you swirl the de-soldering tip when you apply suction. Why? When I do that type of work, I take pictures. Especially if I can't finish right away. My memory is not what it used to be.
I am 64....I would of forgotten the polarity.... Unless the silkscreen was labeled... Was the silkscreen labeled?... And I said before...that is a great desolder tool...
@IMSAIGuy Thanks for the encouragement. I have a old Kenwood TS-430S that probably needs a tune up and cap replacement for reliability sake Detailed pics will be taken to help my memory ...
How is that Hakko holding up ? I keep looking at them, and Im getting ready to recap a Tek 465 and 475 and wonder how much better the Hakko is over an old fasioned springbloaded desoldering pump ?
the hakko is fine, I did drop it once and had to JB weld it back together. but it still works. it is a great luxury when de-soldering more than 3 connections. expensive though.
Greetings from Dubai. Over here attending the ITU WRC-23 conference - not cold here ;-)
Did the electrolytic capacitor replacement on my TS-830s as well as some other maintenance last year. Felt good to get that done to the 42 year old gal. Next project is to do some clean-up work on the band switches and then a full realignment. Lots of bells and whistles on the new radios that I would like, but the TS-830s still performs great after all these years and continues to serve me well.
I did see at least one electrolytic capacitor on the filter board @ 4:09 which you may have overlooked.
I noticed that during editing. Maybe some day it will get a second look
Halloween? You had some processing time for this one.
Focus, focus, focus.
What a cute little rig...
Halloween! Do you like to make a whole bunch of videos in bulk, set them to release on a daily schedule, and then take breaks here and there? Would make it a lot easier to go on vacations with the Mrs!
that is exactly right
Nice repair. Greetings from SP5MDM.
Hi, always enjoy your videos. You keep them in nice bite size chunks not to lose your audience.
I wish you would explain your techniques for soldering and de-soldering as well anything else we would benefit from. It only needs to be done once at the beginning even if you have other videos dedicated to soldering. I noticed you swirl the de-soldering tip when you apply suction. Why?
When I do that type of work, I take pictures. Especially if I can't finish right away. My memory is not what it used to be.
swirl is to keep the wire from sticking to the side of the hole and giving a better chance to vacuum all the solder
I am 64....I would of forgotten the polarity....
Unless the silkscreen was labeled...
Was the silkscreen labeled?...
And I said before...that is a great desolder tool...
you can do it, I'm 67
@IMSAIGuy Thanks for the encouragement. I have a old Kenwood TS-430S that probably needs a tune up and cap replacement for reliability sake
Detailed pics will be taken to help my memory ...
I recapped a TS-430s. nice radio and not difficult to re-cap
@IMSAIGuy Thanks for more good news
How is that Hakko holding up ? I keep looking at them, and Im getting ready to recap a Tek 465 and 475 and wonder how much better the Hakko is over an old fasioned springbloaded desoldering pump ?
the hakko is fine, I did drop it once and had to JB weld it back together. but it still works. it is a great luxury when de-soldering more than 3 connections. expensive though.
They run the 100W output through that small coax to the SO239 ??
this is a 10W version
Plz oil your seat. 😄 Great content BTW!
I've taken it apart twice now and it always comes back
We are engineers, we go 'till it's solved, aren't we? 😀
if it works, it's good enough, 'ship it!'
U'r tha man! cap sassy! break out dat big gun!
I cringe watching the metal watch band touching the bottom of the PCBs...