Hi Tampatec, like you, I'm also a technician for 30 years, I have been following you on your videos on you tube on TV repairs, and your videos are very informative, I notice on the start of this video. you did not apply additional solder on the part you will remove, causing it to heat up the circuit board, it time this will damage the foil pattern. One trick is to re solder first the part to apply new flux to loosen the old solder. Doing this would make it easier to unsolder the part.
I must say this is probably the best soldering video I've seen, thanks a lot. I honestly didn't realize you had to put the whole nozzle of the solder sucker on top of it. I always thought it would melt.
Thanks man!!! I’ve got my first soldering job tomorrow replacing the relay switch to my air conditioner. I picked up my soldering iron and solder today. I’ll head back tomorrow to pick up the flux, vacuum tube and desoldering braid tomorrow. I’ll rewatch this as I move along with it. Thanks again!!!!
This video was super helpful in teaching an amateur how to solder and desolder. Definitely use the Flux for desoldering. If I did this more often I would get the portable soldering iron too. I used this video to help me desolder the joystick from my ps5 controller. It works like new. Patience is the key and I recommend practicing on some components you are not attached tool first.
This is fantastic. Most videos I've seen don't do a great job of describing everything. I need to solder my switch panel on my sailboat since a lot of the solder joints on the switches have failed over time. Thanks a ton for this.
Msn this video couldn't have come at a better time. Transferring the guts from a n older desktop speaker setup to a better set of speakers. Thanks for pointers. Your awesome at this stuff and have learned quite a bit from your channel, so thanks again.
Cool to know a few extra tools exist. I don't know a lot about circuit boards in general that I'd ever feel comfortable diagnosing one using a method like this, but my dad has recently shown me how to solder things together so this came at a good time. Thanks.
Man I’m glad I found your channel I’m 57 years old and learned a lot from you in the first few minutes especially on how to upgrade my tools THANKYOU for all the knowledge you have and share I love that rechargeable soldering iron I remember using some old one my Dad had in the 70s and it took a couple of hours compared to your 10 seconds LOL
Mr Tampa Tec brilliant educational video how long must the circuit pads be exposed to solder heat at 30 watts, what is the safe corridor time, before damaging pad and component. Thanks
Thank you man. I'm working on a project and I made the mistake of over heating the soldering pads because I didn't have the proper tools. I ended up stripping the pads and getting solder everywhere. Thanks to this I now know what I did wrong. Going straight to Radio Shack to get the right equipment right now. Seriously though thank you so much.
A very good video lots of info. The suction pump tip will keep melting when you touch it with the soldering iron. So, you have to keep it some distance from the soldering iron. Thanks for sharing.
Hi Tampatec, what would be the required temperature to be able to melt the solder but not damage the board and solder pad? Otherwise nice video. Thanks
Please like this video if you want to see more howto tech videos like this in the future, or you can recommend a video i should do next, thanks for your input!
+Tampatec Hello, I'm from Russia and I have a TV Sony bravia kdl-47w808a, reboots and goes into standby mode and the led flashes 8 times red. {i+}{5}{Vol-}{onTV}-error HOST_WDT (yadi.sk/i/2JEQ301HrZioW) (yadi.sk/i/uZ83sA8ArZix4) (yadi.sk/i/dFhoW2GhrZiy3) did the reset on the remote control {up arrow}{power button TV} don't help, I tried software update, no change(((((( Please, help me please, can you give a detailed step-by-step instructions for correcting this error. Thanks in advance)))) can email me not on e-mail(vvv2014@icloud.com) or in the comments))
Electrical engineer's advice, from my father's files. He worked on pump panels for the good of 20 years. 1. Lead is better if you want to use less flux, but you'll be looking into vacuum filtration. (can get pricy). It bonds quick. But for less cough and/or lung cancer or respritory difficulty use lead-free, your trade off is more flux so it bonds well and not having to worry about air filters and all that mess. You can use a simple dust mask for lead-free. In a shop environment this is more than okay. If someone ends up breathing it in it ain't gonna cause the lung ache. 2. Clean tip with wet sponge, pre-tin, add water-flux to the tip of your solder, and have fun. 3. Chisel tips work good for hole-through from experience. 4. Comb through helping hands kits with fine teeth. Cheap ones CAN be gold mines, or a complete rip-offs. 5. Plungers are basic most of them work just fine. If you're more than a hobbyist you can get a desoldering vaccum gun for efficient work. I have a weller heavy duty standard use gun. It's not field but it works well for a workstation at home. They're nice if you can get their expansion kits or a station module with PWM - able to read temps off neutral pole and output watt readout + regulation (not really needed in my case, wellers have a controller built in) Avoid walmart guns. My god if you see someone down the isle, tell them that $19 isn't worth the destoryed product. I got my Weler at Lowes. Considered mid-grade quality, which is minimum at best for the job.
I remember soldering jewelery with a blow torch for cloisonne (decorating it by melting layers of powdered glass on top) in the Silver Smithing workshop in summer camp. :) Technology has certainly advanced since then.
@@robinlillian9471 You should always solder metals with solder made for these metals. Like for silver you need a special silver solder, which has slightly lower temperature and for copper you may go for tin+lead solder (63%tin 37%lead has lowest melting point around 183C). It may be easier but for some applications torch is better anyway.
Excellent video mate. The only thing I was hoping to see was soldering a wire to a board. I was wondering if you recommend a variable heat soldering iron or just the standard cheapy at the local,electronic store is good enough. Also if using a variable temp soldering iron. What temperature would you recommend for doing soldering to the board. Also as I’m from Australia, can you please identify the temperature in Celsius of Fahrenheit. Thanks
I like the video. If I was learning to solder I would choose a different soldering gun. That one is fine if you have to solder in the field or you already know how to solder.For the majority of people that solder they like the pencil type soldering gun. I can see it works for you fine.
I know you made this years ago but I finally got to see it. But may I suggest that you do NOT solder even wires over a printed circut board or you will be searching for the dropped solder on the card,,,, then have to clean it again..plus hot solder does splatter when it hits so it might be more widespread.otherwise it really was a good video..
I always get a lot of criticism when people see me using my solder sucker / plunger. Like you I also end up touching the solder iron tip and I see you’re doing the same (the plastic tip is a bit burned). There is a technique that I haven’t really mastered where you never need to touch the iron tip but while removing the tip you put the solder sucker down (in extremely quick succession).
There were so many things I've been doing wrong. When I'm desolderjng and using a pump would it be good practice to tape the PCB down as when I click the button on the pump there's a bit of a pushback force from the plunger releasing
If I don't mind the cord, will I get just as good a job working on circuit boards as the cordless. I only ask because of the great difference in price.
Couldn’t have come at a better time indeed. Just bought a “nice” Pace desoldering station on eBay but the pump failed after 20 minutes of use. This method will have to do.
As always a nice video but the iron at 8:21 couldn't heat the joint quickly because it wasn't proceeding heat but because of the tip. Conical tips need a lot of heat where as if you had a larger wedge or angle tip it would have heated the joint in 2 seconds. Yes probably that iron may not have those tips.
You're right. Wick is definitely a better method but is more expensive and can take longer. The reason the pad can rip off like yours is if the solder is semi-hardened to the pad while being removed. That's why he held his iron on the pad during the process to keep it melted - As you could see, this has the tradeoff of slightly melting his tool's tip. The key is to use the plunger quickly while the pad is fully melted and get in and out before the plunger starts melting.
mostly it isn't platic but teflon! So you can do some nice heat on it! (Most people love it, if it melts a bit - after hundreds of desoldering sessios - for better fitting around the tip!)
Informative video. However, the capacitor you first desoldered was soldered with bent pins. I suppose the capacitor was wrongly soldered. However, thanks for your video.
@@ironrobin i know its 1 year late, but of you still wanna know... flux is used to make the solder stick better to the metal, when soldering, and flow better to the wick, when desoldering
dirty tip. Use a brass ball to help clean it up. You want the end of your iron to be silver and shiny so the solder can stick to it. Sorry if this is a really late response
The reason your camera can't focus - it is too close to the board. Camera lenses have a minimum focal distance (usually three or four feet.) Some camera lenses have a Macro function that you can use if you need to get closer than that - but most cameras can zoom in enough to get those extreme tight shots, even from three or four feet.
@@maxmixer hey not all of us. I've been plumbing for years but even before that I knew solder had an l in it. I just shake my head at how people just tend to make up their own word instead of using the proper term.
The soldering iron you are using is actually crap! The bit is also not clean. It is taking too much time to melt the solder. Before making a tutorial video one must master the skills one wants to impart to others. Please use a bit of flux on the solder point to make a clean job of it. You have damaged the tip of the de-soldering pump by pressing it too hard and too long on the hot solder. And please get a better mains powered 40 watt soldering iron. Sorry for being critical. Please bear with me.
I'm really not trying to be a jerk or grammar nazi or anything. BUT Your title should either be "Easy ways to Solder/Unsolder" or "How to Easily Solder/Unsolder"
Technician with 10 years experience doing his job in the air. Why you didn't buy wise clamps to hold the circuit board within those 10 years? Frickin GURU. Yeah you can do this job in the air... But for creating a learning video it's nono
Hi Tampatec, like you, I'm also a technician for 30 years, I have been following you on your videos on you tube on TV repairs, and your videos are very informative, I notice on the start of this video. you did not apply additional solder on the part you will remove, causing it to heat up the circuit board, it time this will damage the foil pattern. One trick is to re solder first the part to apply new flux to loosen the old solder. Doing this would make it easier to unsolder the part.
Thanks for the comment really helped
I'm an engineer/designer for the past 50 years! And I agree with you, very practical advice indeed.
Desoldering isn't always a walk in the park and I'm glad you were able to show us what to do when it doesn't always go as hoped. Thanks for the vid 😎
I must say this is probably the best soldering video I've seen, thanks a lot. I honestly didn't realize you had to put the whole nozzle of the solder sucker on top of it. I always thought it would melt.
it melts though :D you can see it clearly in the video
@@os-qt1hc just gotta be quick
Great video. Good close up shots of what you are working with, and clear examples of each step. You have my thanks.
Thanks man!!! I’ve got my first soldering job tomorrow replacing the relay switch to my air conditioner. I picked up my soldering iron and solder today. I’ll head back tomorrow to pick up the flux, vacuum tube and desoldering braid tomorrow. I’ll rewatch this as I move along with it. Thanks again!!!!
Just always maintain clean and the tip of your soldering iron or you will fail
This video was super helpful in teaching an amateur how to solder and desolder. Definitely use the Flux for desoldering. If I did this more often I would get the portable soldering iron too. I used this video to help me desolder the joystick from my ps5 controller. It works like new. Patience is the key and I recommend practicing on some components you are not attached tool first.
Thanks for making this video. Been dabbing in some electric projects and never used a de-solder wick, but now I know how to use that too.
This is fantastic. Most videos I've seen don't do a great job of describing everything. I need to solder my switch panel on my sailboat since a lot of the solder joints on the switches have failed over time. Thanks a ton for this.
Msn this video couldn't have come at a better time. Transferring the guts from a n older desktop speaker setup to a better set of speakers. Thanks for pointers. Your awesome at this stuff and have learned quite
a bit from your channel, so thanks again.
cool, thanks for watching, and good luck with your project sounds like fun.
Probably the best soldering video I've encountered yet.
Me too.
Cool to know a few extra tools exist. I don't know a lot about circuit boards in general that I'd ever feel comfortable diagnosing one using a method like this, but my dad has recently shown me how to solder things together so this came at a good time. Thanks.
+TheMacer1111 cool, sometimes soldering broken solder joints can fix many things like power connections.
Man I’m glad I found your channel I’m 57 years old and learned a lot from you in the first few minutes especially on how to upgrade my tools THANKYOU for all the knowledge you have and share I love that rechargeable soldering iron I remember using some old one my Dad had in the 70s and it took a couple of hours compared to your 10 seconds LOL
Excellent coverage on all soldering tips.😉
Great tutorial bro I been doing it wrong I lost the desoldering I fail all need to purchase it thank you god bless you
Mr Tampa Tec brilliant educational video how long must the circuit pads be exposed to solder heat at 30 watts, what is the safe corridor time, before damaging pad and component. Thanks
anyone else watching this after attempting to desolder and not knowing what they were doing?
Me becuse i had my battery come out and im tring to fix it but i have to desolder something lol
Hahahah
Better believe it.
Yeah, shamfully lol
Thank you man. I'm working on a project and I made the mistake of over heating the soldering pads because I didn't have the proper tools. I ended up stripping the pads and getting solder everywhere. Thanks to this I now know what I did wrong. Going straight to Radio Shack to get the right equipment right now. Seriously though thank you so much.
How many people held their breath for a sec when he said "you dont want to breathe this stuff in"? lol
A very good video lots of info. The suction pump tip will keep melting when you touch it with the soldering iron. So, you have to keep it some distance from the soldering iron. Thanks for sharing.
Hi Tampatec, what would be the required temperature to be able to melt the solder but not damage the board and solder pad? Otherwise nice video. Thanks
Please like this video if you want to see more howto tech videos like this in the future, or you can recommend a video i should do next, thanks for your input!
+Tampatec Hello, I'm from Russia and I have a TV Sony bravia kdl-47w808a, reboots and goes into standby mode and the led flashes 8 times red.
{i+}{5}{Vol-}{onTV}-error HOST_WDT
(yadi.sk/i/2JEQ301HrZioW)
(yadi.sk/i/uZ83sA8ArZix4)
(yadi.sk/i/dFhoW2GhrZiy3)
did the reset on the remote control {up arrow}{power button TV} don't help, I tried software update, no change((((((
Please, help me please, can you give a detailed step-by-step instructions for correcting this error.
Thanks in advance)))) can email me not on e-mail(vvv2014@icloud.com) or in the comments))
+Вячеслав Власов check out my TV repair playlist ua-cam.com/play/PLbieLTSjLNFihpdQgqJPSPIoy6AHWqHs3.html
+Tampatec I don't understand what you're saying in the video
Sodder.
please buy a decent quality camera in order to make videos. 480 res is really bad
Electrical engineer's advice, from my father's files. He worked on pump panels for the good of 20 years.
1. Lead is better if you want to use less flux, but you'll be looking into vacuum filtration. (can get pricy). It bonds quick.
But for less cough and/or lung cancer or respritory difficulty use lead-free, your trade off is more flux so it bonds well and not having to worry about air filters and all that mess. You can use a simple dust mask for lead-free. In a shop environment this is more than okay. If someone ends up breathing it in it ain't gonna cause the lung ache.
2. Clean tip with wet sponge, pre-tin, add water-flux to the tip of your solder, and have fun.
3. Chisel tips work good for hole-through from experience.
4. Comb through helping hands kits with fine teeth. Cheap ones CAN be gold mines, or a complete rip-offs.
5. Plungers are basic most of them work just fine. If you're more than a hobbyist you can get a desoldering vaccum gun for efficient work.
I have a weller heavy duty standard use gun. It's not field but it works well for a workstation at home. They're nice if you can get their expansion kits or a station module with PWM - able to read temps off neutral pole and output watt readout + regulation (not really needed in my case, wellers have a controller built in)
Avoid walmart guns. My god if you see someone down the isle, tell them that $19 isn't worth the destoryed product. I got my Weler at Lowes. Considered mid-grade quality, which is minimum at best for the job.
Robert Smith good advice Weller is good solder iron
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Thanks so much! This video is exactly what I needed, very helpful.
I remember soldering jewelery with a blow torch for cloisonne (decorating it by melting layers of powdered glass on top) in the Silver Smithing workshop in summer camp. :) Technology has certainly advanced since then.
This is not silver, this is tin which has waaaaaaaaaaaaay lower temp. For silver soldering you need a torch.
Thanks. Interesting. IMHO it's much easier not to use a blow torch.
@@robinlillian9471 You should always solder metals with solder made for these metals. Like for silver you need a special silver solder, which has slightly lower temperature and for copper you may go for tin+lead solder (63%tin 37%lead has lowest melting point around 183C). It may be easier but for some applications torch is better anyway.
Excellent video mate. The only thing I was hoping to see was soldering a wire to a board. I was wondering if you recommend a variable heat soldering iron or just the standard cheapy at the local,electronic store is good enough. Also if using a variable temp soldering iron. What temperature would you recommend for doing soldering to the board. Also as I’m from Australia, can you please identify the temperature in Celsius of Fahrenheit. Thanks
Great video but I have one question. Does the solder wick have flex on it already or do you have to drag it through the paste?
I like the video. If I was learning to solder I would choose a different soldering gun. That one is fine if you have to solder in the field or you already know how to solder.For the majority of people that solder they like the pencil type soldering gun. I can see it works for you fine.
I know you made this years ago but I finally got to see it. But may I suggest that you do NOT solder even wires over a printed circut board or you will be searching for the dropped solder on the card,,,, then have to clean it again..plus hot solder does splatter when it hits so it might be more widespread.otherwise it really was a good video..
Hello, can I use plumbing flux for soldering ic chips,transistors for tv repair? Thanks
8:56 what temperature are you soldering at? Isn't the Iron Tip on the pad for too long?? Can't that tip burn it out??
I always get a lot of criticism when people see me using my solder sucker / plunger. Like you I also end up touching the solder iron tip and I see you’re doing the same (the plastic tip is a bit burned). There is a technique that I haven’t really mastered where you never need to touch the iron tip but while removing the tip you put the solder sucker down (in extremely quick succession).
Thanks for the tip! i can use this for my project. Planning on replacing the LED's in my car's instrument cluster from blue to white.
There were so many things I've been doing wrong. When I'm desolderjng and using a pump would it be good practice to tape the PCB down as when I click the button on the pump there's a bit of a pushback force from the plunger releasing
If I don't mind the cord, will I get just as good a job working on circuit boards as the cordless. I only ask because of the great difference in price.
best tip: dont solder while hungry
😁
Facts
Excellent video. Thank you very much. 😃
I’m relatively new at soldering and I have no luck at all with desolder braid, Not sure what I’m doing wrong
Couldn’t have come at a better time indeed. Just bought a “nice” Pace desoldering station on eBay but the pump failed after 20 minutes of use. This method will have to do.
are the tips of the solder sucker heat-resistant?
say if your de soldering the switches ina keyboard is the pci board still usable after?
are you supposed to be melting the tip of your desoldering pump?
As always a nice video but the iron at 8:21 couldn't heat the joint quickly because it wasn't proceeding heat but because of the tip. Conical tips need a lot of heat where as if you had a larger wedge or angle tip it would have heated the joint in 2 seconds. Yes probably that iron may not have those tips.
if a pad comes off the board, how do you go about fixing that?
Can i use 60w on smaller solder joints?
i wish you'd shown how to desolder SMD parts and chips with dozens of legs.
Kester vs radioshack. Which should I get?.
Why use a desolder pump? Isn't a desolder wick a better method? When I use a desolder pump it pulls the connector off of the PCB.
You're right. Wick is definitely a better method but is more expensive and can take longer. The reason the pad can rip off like yours is if the solder is semi-hardened to the pad while being removed. That's why he held his iron on the pad during the process to keep it melted - As you could see, this has the tradeoff of slightly melting his tool's tip. The key is to use the plunger quickly while the pad is fully melted and get in and out before the plunger starts melting.
is it a good idea to touch the plastic tip of the pump to the tip of the iron?
mostly it isn't platic but teflon! So you can do some nice heat on it! (Most people love it, if it melts a bit - after hundreds of desoldering sessios - for better fitting around the tip!)
Exactly what I needed
You could just press the solder sucker down past the click and it has a rid that stick out pushing the sucked solder out .
Thanks so much!!! Really good video.
molten metal makes me hungry too! Great video!
Thanks alot man really needed this tutorial 😁😁
Informative video. However, the capacitor you first desoldered was soldered with bent pins. I suppose the capacitor was wrongly soldered. However, thanks for your video.
I want to replace the eeprom in my conkers bad fur day cartridge, but I don't know how
is lead involved in any of this?
Thanks for the quick guidance... I noticed that you were shaking not because you were hungry.. Maybe because you sniffed the soldering fumes
You don't need flux if buy solder with it already added
what is the point of flux? why do you need it for desoldering?
@@ironrobin i know its 1 year late, but of you still wanna know... flux is used to make the solder stick better to the metal, when soldering, and flow better to the wick, when desoldering
Is anyone else here to learn how to replace pickups for the first time and have no idea what soldering is?
Hey your in Tampa??? LOL... we should get together.
my sucke thing dont work the microswitch wont come unlose?
thank you sir!
why does my solder just repel away from the iron into little balls?
dirty tip. Use a brass ball to help clean it up. You want the end of your iron to be silver and shiny so the solder can stick to it. Sorry if this is a really late response
@@Ejlectronics6 thanks, I was wondering the same thing
The reason your camera can't focus - it is too close to the board. Camera lenses have a minimum focal distance (usually three or four feet.) Some camera lenses have a Macro function that you can use if you need to get closer than that - but most cameras can zoom in enough to get those extreme tight shots, even from three or four feet.
No, breathing it in can't be too healthy. But, damn it smells SO GOOD!
this videos are of important but are not been downloaded directly
RIP Radio Shack.
Desoldering wick straight up doesnt work
resolution low and video is long but good info
sometimes i use coaxial cable as wick files.cablewholesale.com/mailimages/coaxcable.jpg
I know what it feels like to be hungry ,go and get your shot ;)
the flux looks like someone craped inside of a stirofome cup and added olive oil to it
Silver solder is for plumbing there's acid inside that's not good for electronics
Monoblock 2500w 2cn
Its not easy when you're dealing with multi-layered PCB with huge ground planes.
Gonna desolder my mechanical keyboard, gl on me xd
I really like your videos.
I subbed.
I am also a growing creator.
I make DIY videos.
My wick will not work at all
Monoblock 1500w
10 years? I had mine for 10 minutes and it got busted lol
Whats a Sodder ?
@Pete is never wrong Crazy Yanks :p
@@maxmixer hey not all of us. I've been plumbing for years but even before that I knew solder had an l in it. I just shake my head at how people just tend to make up their own word instead of using the proper term.
Tutorial should be renamed into "how to ruin your soldering iron tip with desoldering vacuum pump"
Who paid the sponge!?
If you want a challenge, try an HDMI connector on a white case Xbox 360, IMPOSSIBLE!
+Rusty Nuckles its very hard
aaaarrggg - the third letter of solder is not a "D"
Lol gotta love Americans and their sodder 😂😂
Can a person solder off their wedding ring? Yes or no
Sodder? Solder, pronounced soul-der!
🤭🤣🤣
Hindi language mein nahi bol sakta
The soldering iron you are using is actually crap! The bit is also not clean. It is taking too much time to melt the solder. Before making a tutorial video one must master the skills one wants to impart to others. Please use a bit of flux on the solder point to make a clean job of it. You have damaged the tip of the de-soldering pump by pressing it too hard and too long on the hot solder. And please get a better mains powered 40 watt soldering iron. Sorry for being critical. Please bear with me.
Don't breathe that stuff in, it's not too healthy
go take some food
I'm really not trying to be a jerk or grammar nazi or anything. BUT Your title should either be "Easy ways to Solder/Unsolder" or "How to Easily Solder/Unsolder"
Shut up.
Jeffrey Isbell Shut up
Grammar nazi.
Jeffrey; perfect constructive criticism. Ignore the hate. You are only trying to help. Even if it was 2 years ago.
10 years experience and you still don't know how to say soLder .....americans 🤦🏼♂️
Americans butcher more words than just that one.
Technician with 10 years experience doing his job in the air. Why you didn't buy wise clamps to hold the circuit board within those 10 years? Frickin GURU. Yeah you can do this job in the air... But for creating a learning video it's nono
sodder or soulder?