I won't be bothered to place a wire when the gap itself is less than diameter of that wire. On good half of these cracks you can get away with just a solder blob.

@Dtr146

12 күн бұрын

exactly what i was gonna say

The funny thing about magnet wire: If you're using it for patching a trace, then you want what is normally considered bad quality so that the enamel is removed easily. If winding a speaker coil or radio tuner or inductor, etc, you want the BEST quality wire so that the enamel doesn't flake off so easily.

for some reason youtube recommend me this video. Great video and new subscriber here

The fiberglass pen that I use has a smaller diameter fiberglass element . Possibly the broader size pens like that cover too much area for such a job .

huh magnent wire for enamel wire. i learned something. never crossed my mind.

Good stuff mate, just started the same thing, first video coming up soon. Let me know if you want to chat about it... In the meantime I just got hundreds of cassettes and games...but nothing makes you feel better than a repaired sega cartridge!

@HopefulRepairman

13 күн бұрын

Awesome I hope your video does well! It's a great feeling when you get a dead game working again. I see you've made some overwatch videos, That's cool I used to play a lot before they came out with Overwatch 2

Great job on these! If you replace that flux pen with some genuine quality flux (amtech is great) it will make a huge difference :)

@HopefulRepairman

13 күн бұрын

@@monkersuk6719 I have some amtech flux paste I switched to the pen to see if there was a difference in fumes and cleaning and I feel like the pen flux is easier to clean up although I'm sure it's not the best quality

18:12 with such a solder blob on a contact pin you are going to destroy your cwrtridge slot as it will bend the contact in the slot.

@HopefulRepairman

13 күн бұрын

You're right I should have cleaned that pin up with some solder wick. Thankfully it wasn't enough to mess up the cartridge slot when I tested it but I'll have to make sure and fix that it just in case

subbed. keep it up.

Good job! One more subscriber!

Great video ❤❤❤

That mono made me check my headphones ...

@HopefulRepairman

9 күн бұрын

Oops 😬

@HopefulRepairman what catastrophe caused this damage?

@HopefulRepairman

12 күн бұрын

I got these games a lot, so I'm not sure what kind of life they had before I got them, but it might have been corrosion, it could have been the stress of putting them in and taking them out over the years. But it was probably corrosion that got them.

@ovalteen4404

5 күн бұрын

I'm guessing it's the ripping the old cartridge out and slamming a new cartridge in that might have done it. Maybe that's why NES tried out that ZIF-style cartridge insertion scheme.

what solder are you using

@HopefulRepairman

13 күн бұрын

It's a radio shack brand leaded solder 60/40 rosin core solder .032" diameter I probably should be using thinner solder but it's what I have

I can see the reflections of the LED lights you got going there yet the image is still too dark. fix the exposure setting on your camera.

@HopefulRepairman

10 күн бұрын

Thank you for your comment! I'll look into the exposure settings going forward

By cheap Sports games and swap the rom chips

@HopefulRepairman

11 күн бұрын

I tried that on a couple of other Sega games so many pins to desolder I messed up so bad lol

I have used fiberglass pens many times. I don't know why you are freaking out 🤨

@HopefulRepairman

13 күн бұрын

I got some fiberglass dust on the mat I was using and my arms started to itch I just got concerned that I was contaminating my work area with fiberglass dust I know a lot of people like using the fiberglass pens for me it just wasn't working fast enough maybe I was doing something wrong 😕

@aedusxerxes7702

13 күн бұрын

Years ago... i did a repair on my surfboard no gloves.... that dust is no joke. took about a month to stop feeling it... never did that mistake again

you need more flux.

@HopefulRepairman

13 күн бұрын

Yeah watching the video back while editing I realized that as well rookie mistake I guess. Thank you for your comment