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Originally Posted by bmitchell82
Dont let the MOWAF find out your using her best bread and butter plate ..... kriky you would be castrated!
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Thanks Brendan. Nah... it's my dedicated soldering plate.
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Originally Posted by Starkler
A pair of bull nose pliers with a posties rubber band on the handle makes for a good makeshift vice for this kind of thing.
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Yeah I use that usually but this bit is really odd to solder. I need three hands
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Originally Posted by kinetic
Good tips Barry, Geoff...and Brendan 
Only a few things I can add Marc:
With this sort of fine soldering work the best way to calm
yourself is to resign yourself to knowing you could bugger something
very expensive if you pass this point...and know you're ok with that
fact! 
In your case it's just a cord/plug. But it could also bugger a camera
if you get a pin wrong. Am I making you nervous?  |
I realise that yeah. I always check cables with a multimeter before and after and compare with the original. Not the first cable I've done but certainly the hardest to do.
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Originally Posted by kinetic
Sorry, seriously though, as Barry and Geoff have said, get everything
in order to make the job comfortable first...even down to your seat
and posture/ lighting etc.
Have a few coffees. One pin at a time, don't rush it. Work from the hardest pin outwards.IE don't paint yourself into a corner.
When you've accomplished that you can then think about modifying
webcams like me
Here's a few photos of some microsolder jobs...1st one is a typical
SMD timing chip used in webcams.
Then tell yourself you have to lift up to 3 pins of that circuit board
and solder wires to 3 of them then the pads they came up from.
Feel better?
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Thanks Steve. You're definitely on another level though.
From what you guys said there's no quick easy way. Bummer! So I'll keep doing what I'm doing. Pulling my hair and cursing over my flowery dinner plate.
