I was intending to follow the heat shield technique Bruce Wayne's video shows:
Has someone got a video of "the push and twist method"?
Has someone got a video of "the push and twist method"?
A journal of two SE/30s
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I showed this to my Spanish friend and we couldn’t find a definition for the word contratantalista. Is it very colloquial?
I made it up as a light-hearted word for an antiprogresista (ant-progressive), in the context of someone who doesn't want astronauts in their cathedrals nor tantalum caps on their 1980s computers: someone who is against (contra-) tantalum (tántalo) people (-ista).
But it probably should have been antitantalista, enemies of the reactionary forces of the proaluministas.
While there are real Spanish words such as contraterrorista (counter-terrorist agent), but it seems for a person-against-X the usual form is antimonopolista and antibonapartista (antimonopolist, anti-Bonapartist.)
Those who have studied the capacitor production in Lilliput and Blefuscu, almost exactly equal in output, discovered an ancient map showing the long history of this division of the industries. As reproduced in Swift, J., 1726, Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
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Check Adrian's Digital Basement videos, eg this one from about 6 minutes in.
Actually he's way more...er...vigorous than I would be, but you can see the board takes it fine.
I respect Bruce's work immensely, but I've never been able to replicate it with my equipment. Plus I think there's a downside to his method or technique, which is stray blobs of solder ending up blown across the board.
Thanks @SpocksBeer. Now I'm confused!
Bruce: Don't twist, you're rip the pads off.
Adrian: Don't heat, you'll melt everything nearby.
Me: Hmmm.
Bruce: Don't twist, you're rip the pads off.
Adrian: Don't heat, you'll melt everything nearby.
Me: Hmmm.
It's good to be cautious. My $0.02 - I can say anecdotally I've caused more damage with hot air than I have via push-twist. Maybe a skill issue with hot air, but considering I haven't damaged anything via push-twist it's where I'm going to land.
Yeah I'm in the same boat. I just finished off two SE/30 recaps, so 22 caps, with push/twist. Zero pad damage.
Conversely, may years ago I decided my very first recapping attempt would be with hot air on an Amiga A600. How hard can it be right? Yeah, I still haven't gone back to fix the legion of mistakes I made then, and the machine is basically non-functional now (hard freezes randomly after boot). It was functioning fine (albeit due a recap) prior to my ham-fisted attempt.
Conversely, may years ago I decided my very first recapping attempt would be with hot air on an Amiga A600. How hard can it be right? Yeah, I still haven't gone back to fix the legion of mistakes I made then, and the machine is basically non-functional now (hard freezes randomly after boot). It was functioning fine (albeit due a recap) prior to my ham-fisted attempt.
