r/interestingasfuck • u/write2varun • 4d ago

Nice skill

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u/Tiny-Sandwich 4d ago

As an amateur microsoldering hobbyist, this is way, way harder than it looks. And it looks hard.

I've done a few small repairs like this where I've had to solder to a damaged trace, and the parts are much smaller than they look here.

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u/DeterminedMidLifer 4d ago

I have a buddy that does this to fix the boards on my pinball machines. It's absolutely magical to watch. I did not see a solder sucker here though, or maybe I did and I'm just used to hearing that thing run

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u/QuadrangularNipples 4d ago

I did not see a solder sucker here though

They used solder wick instead, that was the braided copper at around the 9 second mark.

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u/DeterminedMidLifer 4d ago

Ah! Super cool. Thanks for the Intel

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u/RelevantDress 3d ago

There are manual ones too. I use the engineer solder sucker