What’s on *YOUR* workbench?

analog_bham said:
Working on doing some toner transfers for some Big Muffs… traced them out in DIYLC and then printed out a page of them. Etching tomorrow.

Update:
Etched them this morning. Pretty happy for a first attempt. Will see how they work!
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Now you gotta drill the damn things. That’s fun.
vigilante398 said:
I wasn't critiquing your english, I was just saying you'll be doing a lot more SMD soldering in the future ;)
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been hearing that for a while now. If everything goes SMD, I met get more playing in and less building. You are your fancy pick and place machine.
 
LukeFRC said:
You know when you have a spell where EVERYTHING goes wrong.
Not “I’m sorry sir but that’s cancer” or “so we are reducing our headcount and your job doesn’t exist” wrong, let’s get this into perspective, but everything takes 4-5 times as long with lots of issues with every little thing in life…

oh well I enjoy making things and soldering things … that will be fun to do, stuck Switzerland vs Canada on on the telly…

So this in photoshop is the output board of a Korg sv1 - and the caps are crap and the left and right channels don’t match and get quieter each time you use it - so let’s recap the main electrolytic caps…
One out - but can I clear the holes of solder - not at all. The ground is just full ground plane, no thermal relief thingys - so my cheap iron is as hot as it will go but can’t heat the whole ground plane up enough … and my solder sucker sucks - but not in the right way…

Balls - any tips? Better sucker? braid?


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So next my wee little project - a jptr jive which is a SHO with clipping doides in a gorva m45 with top jacks … and then I manage to solder the pots on the wrong side of the board!! Maddening

Recued it, it’s a mess and hopefully it work, can’t be bothered right now to do off board wiring.

Argh 😠
And Canada lost, and it’s so flipping hot globalwarmingputtingmeinabadmood
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What is your current solder sucker? I think it's in the picture, but I don't quite recognize it. I only know this style https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006995444186.html which is bad, and this style https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006861778398.html, which is much better.

Would a different tip help? Wider to transfer more heat? Braid is probably worth a try too, although I never had much success when trying it out - brand/quality might matter, or maybe it's technique.

There's also stainless steel pins which I believe are meant so that you can push the pin into the solder and wait for it to harden, and then draw the pin out, leaving a hole, since the solder won't stick to stainless steel.
 
Fama said:
What is your current solder sucker? I think it's in the picture, but I don't quite recognize it. I only know this style https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006995444186.html which is bad, and this style https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006861778398.html, which is much better.

Would a different tip help? Wider to transfer more heat? Braid is probably worth a try too, although I never had much success when trying it out - brand/quality might matter, or maybe it's technique.

There's also stainless steel pins which I believe are meant so that you can push the pin into the solder and wait for it to harden, and then draw the pin out, leaving a hole, since the solder won't stick to stainless steel.
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That’s helpful - it’s the bad type of- think I’m going shopping
 
LukeFRC said:
That’s helpful - it’s the bad type of- think I’m going shopping
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FWIW if you're in the US I think you can get the real Engineer branded one for a decent price? I got mine from Aliexpress and it has felt pretty good, much better than the cheapo type. It probably comes with some silicone tubing too, but if it doesn't, just any normal silicone tubing should work (as long as the diameter is small enough). You get a better contact with that and it won't burn.
 
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