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[sosotiit]

@zecage1, this is not bst, plse keep buy/sell activities in commercial forums

thks, soso

[Perplexer]

QUOTE(slimgrip @ Jul 15 2007, 07:29 AM)

Wonder if they you can purchase extra sockets for installers to save removing/reinstalling on different drives.

Be very handy to have a pack of sockets & one passkey

My thoughts exactly!  It's a standard FFC socket; anyone have a Mouser/Digikey part #?

[BoNg420]

I think they were offering them for $2 or something but you could prob get them cheaper.  Look on their preorder page.

[Teamxbox]

What hot air gun are you guys using to take off the epoxy? I'm also in for some of those ribbon sockets to make things easier for installers. Anything to increase efficiency.

[Teamxbox]

QUOTE(Teamxbox @ Aug 1 2007, 04:59 PM)

What hot air gun are you guys using to take off the epoxy? I'm also in for some of those ribbon sockets to make things easier for installers. Anything to increase efficiency.

I just used a dremel to get the epoxy off, hehe  .
http://www.teamxmods.com/

[pure_bluff]

Just to bump this.....Are there any other methods for safely removing epoxy?

Never soldered until I dont my wiikey last week (worked first time)

I have 1mm Chisel Tip, 0.5 mill flat tips for my 15w iron so that should be ok.

Any news on extra sockets?

Considering I have little or no experience in soldering, which method would be considered easiest (my wii had no legs cut and all solder points intact, no IC leg soldering)

Any help on the above greatly appreciated.

[adol_ivxx]

Here's a little tip from back in the PS2 24 wire or whatever soldering days...

When attempting to solder any sort of pins that are really close together, such as with the 79 pass key socket thing, if you want to make ABSOLUTELY certain that you don't bridge them, just hold (or have someone else hold for you) a razorblade inbetween the two pins while you solder one side. Not only is it a seperator, but it acts like a heat sink as well.

Or you can do like the procedure floating around with the soldering braid. I just don't like the idea of putting solder over ALL the  pins, and then cleaning up the excess with a braid. That's probably just me being stupid, as it DOES appear to be a bit less time consuming.

Lord knows, if I had had some soldering braid at the time (or at least some patience to wait until I had it) my first PS2 chip install would have worked flawlessly. As it was, I did it PERFECTLY, but forgot to hook up the DVD drive ribbon, assumed it must have been one of my solder points, went back and managed to bridge a bunch of pins on the microprocesser. This was when braid would have helped me; you can MAD LIB up the rest of the story.

What I don't know is why they don't just put some solder on the bottom of the cable plug leads, some sticky tape to attach the thing, and ship it out  like that. Then you'd just have to affix it, line up and apply heat.

OH well, probably because it'd cost too much.
adol[IV:XX]