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Offline bbond007

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Re: Recap Amiga 1200 necessary?
« on: May 22, 2016, 01:19:53 PM »
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I own two Amiga 1200 and both of them still working fine. Thinking of doing a recap of my Amiga's.

Is it a necessary to replace the caps even though both Amiga's are working fine?

I don't think there is an absolute certainty your caps are failing... But look at it this way, if you don't do it, how do you know you are getting the 100% best Paula audio experience possible? How do you know your audio has not slowly degraded over the years? Maybe there is a whole other level of audio fidelity you are not experiencing?
 

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Re: Recap Amiga 1200 necessary?
« Reply #1 on: May 23, 2016, 12:26:33 AM »
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The hot air rework station is how I do it most of the time.


This is what i got recently:

http://www.amazon.com/Kendal-REWORK-SOLDERING-IRON-STATION/dp/B004ZB9D4O

Unfortunately the price has increased $10 but if you are thinking of tying this yourself, one of these Chinese soldering stations may be what you need. I think these come with bunch of different brand names, but look to be the same thing.

I assembled several of these "flickering flame" kits and the quality of my work improved so much (over the $15 wand) that its hard to believe it was soldered by the same person.

I may attempt the A1200 myself, I just always thought it entailed removing surface mounted caps which I'm reluctant to attempt.