Hey great video, not many people show the mistakes that happen when repairing electronics and i appreciate the information in the video because you might have potentially saved me from have to buy replacement drives to solve the original Xbox error codes of error 11 or 12 thanks again cant wait to check the resistances of the DVD drive motherboards

@DiscountSasquatch

4 ай бұрын

Thanks, and glad I could help! At least some good came out of this debacle.

Copper tips are easier to clean, but they melt into the solder at high temps. I use copper wool to clean them. The SS tips don't melt, but are harder to clean. Steel wool is what I use to clean the SS tips. I attempted to repair this PCB board and I removed all top mount SMD capacitors and they were all good. After that I tossed it in the trash. I also did continuity test. I couldn't figure out what went bad.

When trying to remove bridges, dont tin the tip, get yourself a tip cleaner, steel wool, and make it as clean as possible. Little bit of flux and it should pull it out. Good luck man.

@DiscountSasquatch

7 ай бұрын

Thanks - will give that a shot and see if it works!

@Hellraiser988

7 ай бұрын

I'd recommend a clean tip a bit of flux and some solder wick if you wanna remove a bridge

@Hellraiser988

7 ай бұрын

Also I wouldn't recommend using a solder sucker on the pins

I fixed a samsung dvd drive by putting a working pcb board in

I would try the control board from the bad laser one in the error 12 one, for solder tiny legs like that a heat gun or heat station would work far better. I used to repair the Xbox 360's and had to replace many a laser on those, that board realistically is what's likely causing the error 12 to begin with, and trying a different board shouldn't make a difference as far as hardware goes, it just drives a laser a couple stepper motors and a spindle motor

@DiscountSasquatch

7 ай бұрын

Will definitely give that a shot, if the soldering fails again - just hoping that the other drive is also a Samsung, and not a Thompson etc...

So i got a lot of bridges i'll put some more solder on' backstreet hero's lol .......

@DiscountSasquatch

6 ай бұрын

"heroes", not "hero's"

Get hakko tips

@DiscountSasquatch

6 ай бұрын

Will those work on a non-hakko iron?

@daliromeriskie328

6 ай бұрын

@@DiscountSasquatch yes! I have a cheap soldering station from Amazon and I replaced the tips with hakko tips and it works great.

@daliromeriskie328

6 ай бұрын

@@DiscountSasquatch also I recommend getting a soldering tip cleaner