Hacking Soldering frustrations

[alucard77]

I actually thought the install wasn't that bad. I wouldn't want to do it for free for any of my friends, but it wasn't horrific.

 

[cory1492]

...holy crap. I actually did it. Just for the record, I think opening the Wii and soldering stuff that small is understated in how genuinely horrific it is, and I hope never, ever to do it again.

Glad you got it sorted. I have been doing quite a few PSP chips lately, and those points on scraped tracks make the wii solder points look gargantuan.

BTW: for future reference, iron tinner (tip tinner) and tinning a wire are somewhat different beasts, though they serve the same purpose of coating one metal with another to improve wetting and prevent (somewhat) direct oxidization of the tinned metal. Normally I put flux on the bared wire, make a little blob of solder on my iron and directly apply it to the fluxed end of the wire, which usually then changes color (from copper to silver).