What is all this? Im pretty much using it for model railroad stuff, in case thats relevant

Hello guys, I know everyone here is tired of Ps5 Diyers but I really need some assistance. I managed to somehow knock off component whilst replacing the sticks and therefore was wondering if anyone knew what the correct replacement capacitor or resistor is ? I’ve looked up replacements online and every thing points to a 0201. Problem is I have no idea what voltage or if it’s even the correct one. Any and all assistance would be greatly appreciated! Thanks

So I have some experience soldering with a soldering iron and I think that my soldering with an iron is pretty decent, so I wanted to step up my game and start trying a hot air gun. I bought a Yihua 959D. I‘m using the nozzle you can see in the pictures above.

I tried desoldering and resoldering this capacitor (I think it‘s a cap?) on an old, not working controller of mine. I already cleaned the area but it still looks burnt, should I do something different? I just took it off by holding hot air to the area, making sure to circle the air, and removing it with tweezers after the solder melted. From there I tinned the pads with a soldering iron and flux. Then, I applied 400C hot air to the area and waited for the solder to melt and then placed the capacitor from above. But looking at it, it looks like it‘s floating a bit. How can I change this?

Any tips and recommendations would be greatly appreciated!

I want to start learning how to solder and wanted to know if this would be a good soldering iron to learn soldering?

How do I go about removing slider inside and under the solder hole areas?

My Geeboon TC22 that I ordered thanks to community advice just arrived and I have just done my first soldering job with it.
Would be great if I could get a review of it! Used some cheap flux and leaded solder, but still, putting an order for MECHANIC solder and flux and probs a fumes extractor as well.

Just a question about the station, the cable it came with does not have a ground prong, there is a hole there, like, what?? How is it grounded then was I supposed to do something about it?

I have 4-Pin Shielded M12 Cable and I need to solder another cable to so said Shield (like in the video). I feel like, I can improve this soldering but could not find anything on Internet. I assume it also should be J-STD-001 Class2 Standart, since this sensor cables will be used in industry. Is there any recommendations how to solder them other than directly put two cables on top of each other?

I literally just picked up soldering last week and this is my first one😭 I’m gonna try and stick to it for a month 😅definitely not as easy as I thought it would be in my head. Also, I was having a hard time feeding the solder wire into the iron, while also holding the wire in place😔😔😔

I'm using aliexpress Kingbo flux, not sure how good it is relative to other fluxes. I'm finding it difficult to get a clean board with it. Once I'm done soldering I'll get a toothbrush with 99.9% isopropyl alcohol and brush it down. Then polish with a cotton bud. It still leaves behind a slightly sticky surface. Not as much as pure flux but it still feels like some remains.

Any suggestions as to what I should do? Should I get a hard bristle brush? I'm maybe not brushing hard as I could as I'm worried about knocking components off the board. I'm mostly dealing with GBA pokemon game boards.

Hi everyone, I recently had an issue with my TV, a faulty pin which is preventing my TV from powering on—an issue which is apparently common with Sony TV's.

The advice has been that I need to solder that faulty pin to the ground. I've watched the PACE tutorials on YouTube and now I'm in the process of looking through tools and trying to decide which ones to get. Preferably I'd rather not spend more than £100 but I can go beyond that price point if the value is worth it.

I would like to ask if anybody has tool recommendations for an absolute beginner?

Thanks so much!

Rebuilt the BGA chip by hand, an ESD filter by hand as you cannot buy them and i cant reball chips anyway.

Need advice on whether to buy an optical microscope, the mechanic robot 6560T trinocular microscope, do any pros think its good?

Basically rebuilt the entire HDMI circuit, including replacing the retimer chip on the right just for the problem to be the hard drive💀

I've had this thing for over 20 years, and I have to say it's absolutely terrible.

Opened it up for the first time and the soldering job, on the soldering station of all things, is just crap. Also the power cable came loose with very little effort, and the soldering iron generally took a good 10 mins to heat up, if it ever got up to the undefined temperature it should have reached.

I post this mostly for nostalgia. Maplin stopped using that logo in 2005 and went bust in 2018, so I've had this sitting around for over 20 years gathering dust.