On Wed, 6 Jul 2005 00:46:09 -0400, "Michael Kennedy"
wrote:

Hi everybody, I have an older Ipod and it has a 9 pin smt firewire connector
on the mainboard. One or two of the connections were cracked and I reflowed
them with my 15/30w iorn and it worked great for 2 days and now it has broke
loose again. I guess I'm looking for some tips on how I can reflow this
where it will stay. Smt stuff is not my favorite things to work on. A
smaller iorn might be somewhere to start, the tip on my iorn is larger than
the connectors.

I had also thought about taking it to the local electronics shop to see what
they would charge. Does anyone know about what it should cost to have
someone reflow 9 smt connections? I would take everything apart so all they
would have to do is just solder it.

Mike



Did you just heat up the solder until it melted, or did you add new
solder? You need to add new solder to get a strong connection. The
connections should look shiny and smooth when you're done. This will
work assuming the circuit board foil isn't damaged.
Andy Cuffe

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