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Re: pictures of the gear you use

Posted: 18 May 2019, 02:05
by Stevebe
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My first soldering with my new tools! I need try more times. I use a broken mother board from a laptop.

Looking good Oscar,

Re: pictures of the gear you use

Posted: 10 Oct 2019, 23:07
by Stevebe
Just Re doing work room so here’s the JBC station,
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Re: pictures of the gear you use

Posted: 04 Jan 2020, 03:36
by Stevebe
Just had my tweezers replaced can’t imagine how I managed without them lol first attempt had tweezers to hot, just a few pics of LED chages
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Re: pictures of the gear you use

Posted: 04 Jan 2020, 07:17
by DGAlexandru
Without this kind of tweezers tool I go with hot air in one hand and a soldering iron in the other one .. and I just move the latter one from one end to the other of that SMD component until it breaks free :lol:
Usually taking components off it's much harder than putting them back... well.. except BGA ones.. which currently are out of my reach :cry:

Re: pictures of the gear you use

Posted: 04 Jan 2020, 15:03
by Stevebe
That’s how I used to manage, but with my old age I’m not so steady so any think to help ..
Lol

Re: pictures of the gear you use

Posted: 05 Jan 2020, 00:54
by Go4IT
Also thought to buy a tweezer soldering iron... which one you are using?

Re: pictures of the gear you use

Posted: 05 Jan 2020, 01:16
by Stevebe
Go4IT wrote: 05 Jan 2020, 00:54 Also thought to buy a tweezer soldering iron... which one you are using?
I have the JBC micro tweezers . I did try the cheeped brands but they were so unreliable.

Re: pictures of the gear you use

Posted: 05 Jan 2020, 08:54
by Go4IT
I see. The tip itself is about 100-130€, but you shure need a (special?) solderingstation from JBC. I am a bit confused which to buy. Prices start from 380€ up to 1.700€ :?

Re: pictures of the gear you use

Posted: 05 Jan 2020, 10:14
by DGAlexandru
The full solution is too expensive for my taste, but I agree they do seem professional enough to maybe deserve that amount of money :P

A starting point would be CP-2QE which includes AM120-A Adjustable Micro Tweezers, but no "cartridges" (C120 cartridges type)... that can be found at about 500EUR... in a compact form.

If you try to build the same thing by buying the parts separately will take about 658EUR from your pocket:
PA-120A (Micro Tweezers)
DI-2D (1 Tool Control Unit )
AM-SA (Stand for AM120 & PA120 Micro Tweezers)

Looking again at Stevebe's gears I think that he is a salesman for JBC and infiltrated on this forum saying that he is interested in this Convers+ thing in order to gain some trust from us and after that, little by little, he will start selling this JBC products that seem pretty appealing :D :lol: :roll:

Re: pictures of the gear you use

Posted: 05 Jan 2020, 14:09
by Stevebe
When you get to my age and you have been working in electronics as long as I have life does have its little perks, I primarily repair valve amplifiers
And build bespoke guitar amplifiers, then all this surface mount stuff started to invade my life so I thought I would look into making my life a little easier
So I invested in the best I could afford and believe me it was the best thing I ever did. Yeah it’s pricey but you only get what you pay for. :D

Who do you think would spend that much on gear hear,, ;)

Ps not certain where your looking for prices tweezer cartridges £31 each.
https://kaisertech.co.uk/products/solde ... %5B%5D=194