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SMT Solder Reflowing Ipod firewire connector
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 |
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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 -- Use this address until 12/31/2005 -- Use this address after 12/31/2005 |
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I didn't add solder becasue I would have overflowed the pad with my iorn. I
also was not sure if it was silver solder or lead. "Andy Cuffe" wrote in message 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 The circut board was fine when I took it apart, but I don't know if it seperated this time or if the solder just broke off. I havn't taken it apart again yet. - Mike |
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Since you mentioned it, how would you fix it if you pealed off the circurt
board foil? I have had this happen in the past and have really had to hack some stuff to fix it. Could you possibly use superglue to reattach the foil to to the pcb? Just a thought. - Mike "Andy Cuffe" wrote in message ... 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 -- Use this address until 12/31/2005 -- Use this address after 12/31/2005 |
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"Michael Kennedy" wrote in message ... I didn't add solder becasue I would have overflowed the pad with my iorn. I also was not sure if it was silver solder or lead. Just add a bit of ordinary tin/lead rosin core solder, you can get it at Radio Shack amoung many other places. Doesn't take much, and if you do it right it won't overflow. |
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"Michael Kennedy" wrote in message ... Since you mentioned it, how would you fix it if you pealed off the circurt board foil? I have had this happen in the past and have really had to hack some stuff to fix it. Could you possibly use superglue to reattach the foil to to the pcb? Just a thought. - Mike There's a variety of ways, but generally you glue down the component if it doesn't have enough undamaged connections to hold it physically, then you solder small jumper wires. |
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I bought a new 15w iorn. Then I got gutsy and added some solder to it. I
couldn't find my small solder so I had to use some big stuff. I had a bit of overflow onto the other connections but I cleaned it up without any probs. Trusty ole solder sucker did its job great. So far so good its seems to be on there good. - Mike "James Sweet" wrote in message news:smKye.12304$Fy4.1817@trnddc04... "Michael Kennedy" wrote in message ... I didn't add solder becasue I would have overflowed the pad with my iorn. I also was not sure if it was silver solder or lead. Just add a bit of ordinary tin/lead rosin core solder, you can get it at Radio Shack amoung many other places. Doesn't take much, and if you do it right it won't overflow. |
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