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Fixing your router with a soldering iron tip made in 565 AD (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Soldering screwdriver

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

2 in 1 and if you have a good one it comes with extra bits so you can just pull that one off with your bare fingers and put a new one in.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

While it's hot right?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

I wouldn't recommend it. I do pyrography, and used one that screws in the tip. Thought I'd turned it off > 10 minutes ago, and used my index and thumb to start unscrewing it.

I could first hear it. Like a tiny sizzle, imagine miniature bacon. It feels cold, but then I started understanding what the sound was.

Then I realised I'd just gotten burned. Hard. It's not big, but I kept my fingers in water for a while to cool. Now I just have tiny scars that looks cool.

I'd rate it at 3/10.

I know you said it as a joke, and I have no idea why I wrote this reply, but here we are. Do with it as you please.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Whoa what are they soldering? Barn walls?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It’s likely for stained glass windows.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Huh interesting - thanks

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I dunno why it took me this many years to learn this but USE MORE FLUX. Seriously. Use so much flux.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Been there, did that. With a similar iron, I unsoldered am MC68000 CPU (DIL64) from a mainboard. Neither ruining the chip nor the board was an option.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

The big tip might be advantageous to desoldering a 64 Pin chip with through hole mounting.

Add lots of soldier wire and a big tip might alow you to apply heat equally so you can pull the chip out.

Still not an easy task, but easier than some tiny microsoldering tip.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I solved it by using cannulas. They are made from stainless steel, and solder won't touch it. They were thin enough to separate the pin from the through-hole. It still was nerve-wracking. That was my main machine I was working on, a nearly prototype Amiga 1000 that had cost me a fortune.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Am Here do that all my spending is into projects gonna buy a Vetter one soon tho cuz i need to möge a resistor on a 0 w to allow sautering in a ufl smd