Re: Video - quick capacitor replacement using liquidized lead
Well, I still haven't broken that clay solder pot yet. The reason for that is because I built a solder pot very similar to Agent24's and it works very good.
I ended up using a 5/8" (about 16 mm) diameter copper cap (the type used for water pipes here) for the job. It was just the easiest way I could think of (and it really was). First, I drilled a hole in the center and then put a small bolt through it. The bolt has the same diameter size and thread pitch as that used on my 35W Radio Shack iron tip (it's a screw-in tip... i.e. a tip with a bolt thread on one end that you screw into the iron). As for the stand - I saw a piece of wood plank in the trash can of my recent former job. It looked nice so I took it. I immediately thought about using it for the solder pot stand - and I did. Things couldn't have worked more perfectly. Some cutting and drilling, then 6 nails later and I got a nice looking and very functional solder pot stand. The design is really good IMO, because I can easily take out the soldering iron - just pull up that wire piece that looks like the mouth of the smiley face to remove it and the iron can be taken out of the stand. As for removing the solder pot - well, it's on a screw. As soon as it's cool enough to handle, you just twist to unscrew from the soldering iron and that's it. The only potential downfall of that is if somehow the solder pot becomes unscrewed while the solder is hot - lots of bad things can happen then. But that hasn't happened so far.
I'll let the pictures speak for themselves now:
https://www.badcaps.net/forum/attach...1&d=1343353897
https://www.badcaps.net/forum/attach...1&d=1343353897
The pot was already used to remove some multi-pin parts on a single layer TV board - it worked very well for that. I also used it to solder some 18/20 AWG stranded wires to each other (had a Bestec ATX-1956D PSU that needed wires since its original wires were cut when I found it) - now this solder pot made the job very easy for that. Just put some flux on the wires and dip them in the solder pot for a second or two. Take out and you get perfect joints. Soldering the wires together was the easiest part about rewiring that PSU, thanks to the solder pot.
I'm thinking about making some different size solder pots for it now - that way if I need to remove a component from a board that has SMD parts around it, I can just pick the right size pot for the job.
If any of you have an old crappy iron that you are not using, I encourage you to try this - it's very easy to make. If you do lots of wire-to-wire soldering, this will make the job super easy.
Well, I still haven't broken that clay solder pot yet. The reason for that is because I built a solder pot very similar to Agent24's and it works very good.
I ended up using a 5/8" (about 16 mm) diameter copper cap (the type used for water pipes here) for the job. It was just the easiest way I could think of (and it really was). First, I drilled a hole in the center and then put a small bolt through it. The bolt has the same diameter size and thread pitch as that used on my 35W Radio Shack iron tip (it's a screw-in tip... i.e. a tip with a bolt thread on one end that you screw into the iron). As for the stand - I saw a piece of wood plank in the trash can of my recent former job. It looked nice so I took it. I immediately thought about using it for the solder pot stand - and I did. Things couldn't have worked more perfectly. Some cutting and drilling, then 6 nails later and I got a nice looking and very functional solder pot stand. The design is really good IMO, because I can easily take out the soldering iron - just pull up that wire piece that looks like the mouth of the smiley face to remove it and the iron can be taken out of the stand. As for removing the solder pot - well, it's on a screw. As soon as it's cool enough to handle, you just twist to unscrew from the soldering iron and that's it. The only potential downfall of that is if somehow the solder pot becomes unscrewed while the solder is hot - lots of bad things can happen then. But that hasn't happened so far.
I'll let the pictures speak for themselves now:
https://www.badcaps.net/forum/attach...1&d=1343353897
https://www.badcaps.net/forum/attach...1&d=1343353897
The pot was already used to remove some multi-pin parts on a single layer TV board - it worked very well for that. I also used it to solder some 18/20 AWG stranded wires to each other (had a Bestec ATX-1956D PSU that needed wires since its original wires were cut when I found it) - now this solder pot made the job very easy for that. Just put some flux on the wires and dip them in the solder pot for a second or two. Take out and you get perfect joints. Soldering the wires together was the easiest part about rewiring that PSU, thanks to the solder pot.
I'm thinking about making some different size solder pots for it now - that way if I need to remove a component from a board that has SMD parts around it, I can just pick the right size pot for the job.
If any of you have an old crappy iron that you are not using, I encourage you to try this - it's very easy to make. If you do lots of wire-to-wire soldering, this will make the job super easy.
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