Guide: Home Made Air Pencil Soldering Iron

[GideonX]

Guide: Home Made Air Pencil Soldering Iron

One of my previous guides here was on modifying the CVS camcorder to allow users to download movies made with it to their home computers. During the early stages of this project, it was necessary to remove the memory chip from the camcorder and then surface-mount it on a different PCB to read the chip without killing it. Luckily, a way was developed to access the memory chip via USB, but I decided that it was time for me to take a closer look at ways to improve my soldering.

Home Made Air Pencil Soldering Iron

[MegamanEXE]

this was an awesome little mod, good job.

[viridius]

That's pretty neat.  Were you able to solder that opto on without it burning up?

[Dave303]

That's pretty neat.  Were you able to solder that opto on without it burning up?

Yes I was able to do that. I just need to pick up a 1 cap from the Shack and get my LED's that I ordered and I should be finished with the 2nd run of this circuit board.

[RaDragon]

Hot air soldering iron? Is there really such a thing?

That's a pretty kewl mod!

[Dave303]

Hot air soldering iron? Is there really such a thing?

That's a pretty kewl mod!

yeah .. and they can be a bit on the high price side ...

http://www.mpja.com/productview.asp?product=15143+TL

[Skylined]

Very nice, I'll give it a try whenever I see a cheap desoldering iron like that one.

I haven't seen one of those over here, just the expensive ones.

[divideByZero]

good guide, i may actualy do this. one thing though, ductile - Easily drawn into wire or hammered thin.

[MegamanEXE]

this would have come in handy when i was overclocking my dreamcast, and accidentally broke a pin on the clock control chip with my bulky radioshack iron.

[Alric_the_mad]

I'm going to build one of these now, and add it to my growing collection of tools.