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Offline hirschma

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Re: Soldering tools
« on: October 06, 2017, 03:43:41 PM »
Wow, where to start?

Heat adjustable iron - the low-end Hakko is pretty competent.

Desoldering braid/wick.
Liquid or gel flux.
Good quality solder, both leaded and lead-free.
Panavise or other work-holding jig.
Bench lighting.
Optivisor magnifiers.
Clip style heat-sinks - great for keeping wires from melting...
Good multimeter - find a re-calibrated, used Fluke if you can. an 87 V is truly an amazing meter and endlessly useful.
Cheapo rework station - look for the X-Tronics 4000 series on eBay. Surprisingly good quality and endlessly useful.

That's just off the top of my head. What are you working on?
 

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Re: Soldering tools
« Reply #1 on: October 06, 2017, 05:47:02 PM »
Quote from: David Wright;831379
The others, not sure. I have three Amiga monitors 1084 and 1942. Two have off colored displays which goes away when pushing on cable in back.
Seems like another resolder doesn't it? of course I know there are dangers with opening these without discharging. I need to learn and not the hard way.


True story. I was modifying a 1084 back in the day when they were new - I was putting a touch-screen overlay on it. It involved some internal surgery, mostly to put a secondary power supply inside for the overlay.

So, I'm sitting at my kitchen table, and I reach over the open monitor to grab a tool. And my bare arm touches the tops of some of the big cap cans.

The jolt caused my arm to swing back so violently that it lifted me out of the chair and back. I woke up looking up at the ceiling, and counted myself very, very lucky.

So yes, learn from my experience.