 Hello world This is for anybody who's thinking about buying one of these They're cheap You can buy this particular one This is the the air gun and the solder the soldering The eye I bought this I think it was like 50 something pounds, but I've seen them for as little as Just under 50 pounds No, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry or 39 pounds something on eBay. I am purposely wrong for the one that didn't have a brand Because I've seen so many of the different names I don't think I ever quite understood what the plus was for the D's for digital I think Digital readouts you're gonna read out for the air gun as for the temperature This is for the speed this little tony-tony not there And you've got the this is for the soldering You press enter and you go up and down in temperature press enter and Because that temperature whether it's less or more than what you had it before pretty basic operation You switch either a model off That's for the soldering This is for the Air gun and there is actually a switch on the back switch on the back Which is good then it even has a safety fuse Switch there. I probably wouldn't you know buy one and just take it apart. I've had to because Well, this one had a bit of a problem. It was basically my my error But never mind These things happen There's the back there's the inside there's the transformer It's got a few taps coming off it And this is the board, you know, it doesn't look terribly bad. It's not as good as I'm sure as good as a The top brands It's not terribly bad either I Put a different type of solid iron in because all that came with it It's not It's not very strong. It's not very good. You start I am I Use one of these things It's got like a wire wall. It's supposed to be brass, but I don't know about But anyway, it's it's helpful for cleaning the tip of the soldering You know sometimes when you like to forget about it a little bit might be Distracted and leave your soul right in there Messes up at the end and that's quite good cleaning off As well as the as well as a wet sponge And I think I was applying too much pressure, but There's a ring of the soldering This this ring that they quite They're quite weak really in the other soldering That's a bit rattly The other solar I This bit broke The heat had cracked lots of little bits were coming off it start off with and then it broke So I ended up roughing lots of tape around it, but I got one of these basically these Solid Ryan's I just thought it'd be five pin replacement Just swap it in then I have it and bang something went bang inside this And it turned out to be turn out to be this Component just here see we can see that when you see how You can actually see is it it was a triac When you can see the sort of copper or something on the back of my coin show what that is I'm looking through my light lens through the friends of the camera To that just to make sure there's enough light so you can see Anyway, so yeah, it's pretty damaged and That's that's what I've got to take out today taking the swap in I ordered Well Rx multi RS name maplins only had them in America and it was gonna cost me 15 pounds or something to get one shipped so I decided to To wait and if not 99p I've got ten of the darn things. I had to wait. Well, I think it's been about 10 11 days for them to get here But I've got 10 From half the price of one And they're the right ones except well, they're marked up to be correct I'll do that when I've got one out. I can't read through there through the plastic But yeah, that's the that's the replacement track I gotta tick all this apart gonna take these bolts off these little nuts off here each corner To pull this all out and then get to underneath and desoldered the underneath and screw And hopefully it should be a painless change over Now I'll put all the earth and such back and then basically just turn it over power it up and see if I get the desired Effects and if I do I'll put it all back together again and so that's success and if I don't You'll have to see what else has gone wrong But like I say, I mean I plugged it in 10 dollar bang inside. I switched it back off again I've used I've used the hot air since That still works Just this just report there's an error, but this side works This works. So, you know, not all it's lost No, it's awesome I'm going to undo these Get on with the other side. I can't hold the camera and do all this at the same time So I'm just gonna have to pause filming for now to get these nuts and Okay, so I pulled that off I've just put this bag here. So I don't want to scratch the inside of these Windows Next I think I'll make it look a bit tap. So I've put a bag there Which actually has the handle for my powers It's got that in it, but nevermind in case anybody wondered. Yes, this this is unplugged Yeah, so see this is what we got on this side and Hopefully, you know everything else on here Isn't really gonna be damaged. You can see there's locked all these down. It'd be nice They've put some sort of anti-vibration washer on this, you know the anti-shake lease type I'll dig one out and I'll put one on. No, but I think you know, it's just a It's just good. It's got a good a good wash on there, especially as it's the the point Fingers crossed everything else in here is okay. It's just a case of unsoldering that there Wow, look at that See This camera is not It's a you know, it's I bought the phone to be a fan to be fair and I didn't really get it for a camera I didn't even think I was gonna do anything like this But it's quite funny how courses or events things can change your life From one path and things happen. You end up going down another it's But Twiddly deep Deviating here's a Presumance because it's to carry a heavier current as This thing is tracks. I've got an eight amp Capability I think I might have to push that chip down into the Maybe it won't go. It just it doesn't look like it's in there very good. It doesn't actually move so Maybe they popped a bit a glue or maybe that's just good enough anyway. Surprise. It's not direct on the board Maybe there's a reason for that. I don't know Yep, okay, we don't too much. I don't think it's the highest quality components or anything. I Think it's just a value Value type thing as far as I'm concerned as long as it works and it can be a backup I Feel the one fails or any to some reason or I Need two different ions on the go at two different temperatures at the same time Back to the job at hand. I just noticed that I'm actually switched Yep Don't get me wrong it's still another cheap one it costs a little bit more than this does and it doesn't have hot air on it so I'm hoping that a The extra just goes into the quality of keeping a constant temperature Even though you to be fair I've had that one there. That was a new one of those I came this morning because the other one started to develop a tick Well a click where it's just that click click click click. It's a bit unnerving. So they swap them out And I know that the other one didn't really keep constant temperature because Well, maybe it did maybe it's just my Very naive novice soldiering skills Hey, let's go on with it. No, I'll just screw out this and You know push this away from the heatsink and I'm quite glad to see there's no thermal coupling paste there because I'd have to do a whole lot of looking up then see this Conductive and non-conductive where it wants to be attached to this or not Obviously, it doesn't really matter because one there's no coupling base. There's no mic. There's nothing to separate this from this to isolate it so And I don't have any more coupling Non-conductive I'm used to all up when I work my high voltage power supply using 200 2055 3055, so For those in parallel works quite good So I'm gonna turn this over now the iron is heated And just whip this out and rip another one in I can't hold camera at the same time. I don't have any Only facility for doing it either I'm afraid I have to put the camera down I say that component is slightly damaged it didn't win the war And I just hope that that's You know, that's the only that's the only thing that's died quite a bit of difference between the two It's BT137 600 E MPX Track I'm gonna pop this in there. We're gonna see if this works Okay, so we've got that soldered in I tend to just Very gently just spread slightly and I put the screw back in as well make sure that the Heat sink is stuck correctly, and then I soldered so I'm just gonna knit these off with the wire snips and And then test it out. I'll Connect it back in into the fascia Put the nuts back down especially on this safety Yeah, I'll find a little a Little shake shake proof Washer, well, I hope I will And Yeah, then we go about putting it back together again. I Couldn't I couldn't find Sheep proof washers what I've done is I've tightened another nut on top of the nut Which effectively works pretty much in a similar sort of fashion This can't undo because this one's on top and for them both to undo Yeah, there you go. That's just trying to make the the best out of her That's a great job So I shall now put the front on just by pegging a couple of screws Just bunny up in a couple of screws up just hold it in place and then just try it out And see if we got some success from that point Or should I say to see what's successful? to this point now before I Just a little look around for the item Oh, I see it. Okay. I think that is no, that's another one Anyway before I power this up I Don't know how Accurate or inaccurate this device is I Have a thermometer that I could place the nozzle of the hot air to but If this reads here, let's say 400 and It's not correct Because I've put a probe at the end of the nozzle when I'm expecting to see 400. I Have to take into account some variables And the variables were this We're going to be including this the speed The ambient temperature of this room. There's going to be lots of variables the accuracy of this Which I don't expect to be too high young number. This is like lesson Well, like I said, I've seen with 49 pounds of 39 pound 99 including free delivery So you're basically getting All this For that money. I think that's an exceptional buy. I don't even build it for that And I think that's an exceptional buy that you've actually got an iron Which does work It may not be absolutely Perfect for temperature keeping or for being the highest the quality But it works and it'll get you by and we'll see you got the hot air gun Which also works and you go you get a few of these and a very easy to put on takeoff Especially when it's a cold iron and not a hot iron. I'd say be careful When it's hot very careful Yeah, I don't know, you know, if I just know that it does it does work It doesn't make any awful noises. It doesn't do anything dodgy as far as I can tell the plugging in of a different iron I Told myself I'll get another iron. I'll just check the pinouts. I Check the pinouts just to ensure that I wasn't going to do that I didn't and I just plugged in Took the chance a lot of time. You know you check the pinouts. Everything's okay. Take the chance Without checking in That can happen So I'm gonna just get my hands on the iron and plug in and we'll see what happens That'd be great for continuity if everything was you know The same is what it was when I had to pause the video and go off and do about ten different things and come back So I'm hoping that the light is relatively the same but so right I've just plugged it in I've put the the iron back on And I'm gonna flip the power switch now before this wouldn't get bang or anything terrible if I put in the power on so Okay, well, it's nice to see that both sides. That's automatically Going up in temperature. So I'm gonna switch that back off again. I'm gonna switch that off again I didn't realize it'll both switched on But then I didn't expect it to do anything untoward either So all in all For the repair costs. I don't know what that was First of all 98p or something or 1 pound 38 Hold on. I'm gonna verify that Yeah, I made a mistake One pound 15 pretend Yep One pound 15 for 10 please forgive the mess As I've been playing with bits and pieces. So yeah, well chuffed well chuffed. We have now got a soldering That works and it was nice just to hear you can hear it's like hum from the transformer nice to hear it Not hum and that's doing exactly what it used to be There we go flip this side up close until I take that out That's a hot iron now, so I don't I don't really want to We can hear that That's working too and my batteries about to go so That will Start going down in temperature again And I can actually switch this off on here and it will still Warm itself down as it were Okay, right. I think that's it for this It's been a successful fix and I'm happy with that now. I've got another spare Solid station in case the other one goes down brilliant Thanks for watching