Branson UltraSonic Cleaner

[@SandDsmallenginerepair]

i miss this kind of work. before retiring i used to do troubleshooting, repair, building pcb, building test equipment for cat and msd

[@ThriftyToolShed]

Sounds fun for sure!

[@epd807]

Another great video! Awesome job of troubleshooting, especially with no schematic! Thank you Philip! God bless.

[@ThriftyToolShed]

Thanks so much for your kind comment! God bless you as well!

[@emmettturner9452]

A couple tips for that desolder gun: Pre-heat the joint with your higher wattage iron so that it will melt all the way through. Pinch the hose and hold the trigger to build up suction the release so it will remove all the solder at once. Otherwise it removes solder from the bottom while the suction builds, breaking your heat bridge to the other side and causing it to solidify while you are still trying to pull.

[@ThriftyToolShed]

Thanks, this Desoldering gun has no hose it is the cheaper built-in pump style, but it works fine, and I have shown it working fine on single layers boards in the past. I simply brought it out just to show how thick and difficult this board was going to be without just saying it. Tried to add some real visual clues in case it helps someone struggling with a thicker board. It is a big difference in boards sometimes, and it's not easy to reflect that on camera. I should have still explained it better, it seems.

[@emmettturner9452]

Oh, man… it really didn’t look like the self-contained/portable desolder guns since it didn’t have a big motor on the back like Hakko 808 or FR301. Looked more like a ZD-915 or something. Yeah, I was reading you loud and clear about your intentions, I just thought you might’ve been able to pull it off with that anyway on a thick PCB with a few more tricks… like I’ve been forced to do several times. One example was when desoldering the analog AV port on an original 2001 XBOX to install XBOX HDMI. I needed to hold it upside-down, preheat with an iron, and grow a third hand to do the pinch technique for a dozen or so ground/power pins. Without these tricks my Aoyue Int801A++ barely works on two sided plated thru hole boards even though that’s exactly what I bought it for. That’s why I stubbornly kept at it until I learned the tricks and techniques I needed to pull it off anyway.

[@ThriftyToolShed]

@emmettturner9452 I know what you mean. I have been there for sure. I could have used my hot air also to assist. I was just not sure if most people would have that on hand to assist and wanted to share how the low temperature solder can save the day at times. Thanks for sharing!