Re: Starting out, inexperienced solderer.

Still working on the half a brain and practice part. I do appreciate the picture there of the work tools.

And the commentary on the hakko 888 model has put me at ease a bit. The 936 while I've been watching over the last 2-3 months while I work out other stuff has ran out of stock at multiple locations, and is increasing it's price on the remaining places. So at least I know I can wait and get the Hakko 888 without worrying.

I probably need to look into getting a digital multimeter as well in the future, but gotta...

Re: Starting out, inexperienced solderer.

I appreciate the feedback from both of you. Some of this is a little "see for yourself" Im guessing. Like I stated previously, I am going to mess with already broken parts that I know I won't be attempting to fix since they were physically damaged beyond what would be reasonable. Just to get an idea of the right and wrong way to do things.

Some of the stuff said is like a foreign tongue, especially from severach. I wasn't complaining about the price on the solder, just some feedback on what brand and people felt was...

I have recently upgraded a computer and moved parts around in my machines. One machine that has worked mostly fine for quite a while has at least one clearly bad capacitor.

In addition to that I have an Dell SFF that this site sells a kit for, can't recall it's model number. I found at least 5 visible bad caps there and it exhibits all the symptoms I've seen listed for it's model number when it has bad caps.

Also a PSU I know had a couple bad caps in it, but is still functional...a small capacino model PC a friend gave me..popped it open and half the caps around the...