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Fixed mistakes w/solder wick, added capacitors...


So... After a morning session, a 5 hour rehearsal and 2 hours working in my studio, I was able to sneak into the basement lab to do some work for a short spell.

Here's the board yesterday after I yanked... uh, carefully took out those resistors I had installed incorrectly... It's the R4_SIDx and R24_SIDx series that I had put into the C3_SIDx/C23_SIDx spot. (I stole, er, borrowed my wife's nice camera, so these pics are a little more detailed)

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There was still leftover solder in some of the holes as you can see here:

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So, I tried using solder wick. It worked out really good sometimes for me, and took forever sometimes. Sometimes the solder sucker completely cleared out the holes too... it was a pretty imperfect science for me, and I don't feel I have quite the hang of it yet, but I more or less got the holes cleared, and only singed the board a little:

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So, tonight I added some more capacitors to the SID modules:

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But I ran out of time before I could finish, so here's where I stand now:

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I wont have time tomorrow to work on it :cry: , so I'll hopefully find some time over the weekend...

I'm movin' forward again, and it feels good!

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Brathering

Posted

I could recommend to buy a desolder-pump for the future.

After a few cheap-models i've bought this one finaly years ago, work great until today.

All the talk about "but ya maybe going to rip off the solder-tabs" I can strickly disagree, X.000 of propper unsoldered parts are on my side of view! ,-)

Keep up the good work and documentation!

Blatboy

Posted

Oooh, that looks a little more deluxe than the one I'm borrowing. I need to get my own, and that looks like a great option. thanks!

Hawkeye

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+1 on the desoldering pump - i own a huge low-tech variant for 2.40€ and after two years it still works very well, the seller has exorbitant shipping rates to usa, but maybe you find something similar on ebay? it is about 30cm in size :)

http://www.reichelt....a98e97ce366cef7

Many greets!

Peter

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