How To Lift SMD Pins Safely - IC Pin Lifting / Soldering
How to lift SMD pins safely is a nice guide showing you the tools and methods needed to achieve successful pin lifting on your printed circuit boards.
Showing clear video examples throughout see the methods and tools needed and learn the components that need to be treated differently.
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Great tips and good to see failures happen to professionals as well as us DIY'ers. Thanks for sharing.
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Another amazing tutorial! Well done!
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@mrsolderfix3996 You deserve the support. You take time and effort to make these videos. They are easy to follow, and you make it easy to understand what you are doing. Thank you, you do the same!
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Clean! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with people 😊
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Thank you for sharing your techniques.
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This channel is absolutely the best ! I only got to know about your channel since about a week ago. It got me interested in soldering again and to improve my techniques (or lack thereof). Already used dozens of your tips . Keep up the great job !
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Brilliant. I l always learn something watching your videos, thanks for sharing your knowledge.
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I have had to do this to kind of rework on some of our boards in the lab. we needed to change a net from -1v power domain to the -4v power domain. Obviously some IC's still needed -1v so to facilitate that we had to to lift a pin, and run a wire from the lifted pin to the -1v supply. I could have saved some time, and broken pins with this technique. I ended up using a 45 degree curved conical tip, and tweaked the pin with that instead of the scalpel. At a narrow pitch it was hard to only tweak the one pin you wanted. using a scalpel looks far more precise.
After the PCBA was done, the boss want to change the CPU supply from 5V to 3.3V. I have to lift every supply pin to feed with a separate power source. It end up became a power bus on top of the CPU. I call it the "ring of fire". It was 25 years ago, what a fun memory. (I hate BGA 😂, have to drill a hole from back of PCBA to do that).😢
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Hey bud, lovely video as always. I have a little bit of a soldering challenge for you - it's something I'll have to do a bunch of times (100s) sometime in the future, so I'm gathering ideas on how to do this best. So the idea is to make a pcb that one can solder a 32 pin, 0.6mm pitch, stranded, IDC cable to. Solder, meaning no flipboard connectors or pin headers or nothing. Strip a few mm off the wire, and solder it to the board without shorts or missed pins. Seems difficult to me - the one tip I've seen was to use a "spade tip" T12 soldering iron to both remove the insulation as well as (another, clean tip) solder all the conductors at once. But I'm still worried about registration errors (conductors sliding around to the wrong place). Would love to see a video with your take on this. As said i have to do this 100s of times so it'll be difficult!
Excellent video. Thank you very much for sharing❤
Hi , thank you for watching the video and commenting , very kind of you . I'm glad you enjoyed the video, hopefully it can help a few people with their pin lifting . Thanks again , take care 👍
@@mrsolderfix3996 hi. Would it be possible for you to do a video on how via are fitted on a PCB? Thanks
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Good to see another great video! Congrats on 80K !!!
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@@mrsolderfix3996 you just keep doing your thing brother, you will hit that 100k and beyond. I truly believe your techniques and clean approach is an art. Keep it up!!
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Thank you for another great tip.
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thanks for the tips and i cant wait to try them. Voultar gave some fantastic advice on lifting pins with a fine pitch with a dental pick!
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Your dialect reminds me of Stephen Graham. I imagine him in Pirates of the Caribbean educating me on all these awesome soldering techniques! Let me just put my Captain Tape in that bawd
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@@mrsolderfix3996 much obliged, i was suggested your vids by the algorithm and have to say, top notch quality content. Thank you for sharing your amazingly useful knowledge! I also have a very useful set of skills with a medical/pharmaceutical background. If you ever think you could use some help, you know where to look.
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@@mrsolderfix3996 As you can see from people cheering you on in the comments, your shared knowledge fell on a great lot of fertile ground. i would go so far to say that you have actually enabled a major advance in applied soldering for an impressive number of people, novices and masters alike, and the positive impact on humanity cannot yet be measured, but i'm sure your attitude and willingness to share and help will assure a future for you where your net worth doesn't matter.
Impressive stuff. I need to work on my flux cleanup skills after watching this lol
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Another great video with some helpful tips and the usual fantastic camera work. thanks!
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@@mrsolderfix3996 You've done an amazing job. Whenever I have a [de]soldering question I check for a video on your channel before anything else!
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I love your videos! Thank you!
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Great tips! thanks a lot
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Thank you for sharing your knowledge!!!! I really appreciate it!!!! I like the way you explain the techniques. If you ever run out of ideas for a video, please consider making one about reaching out hard-to-reach components (for example, between larger components). Should I use a special tool? Should I desolder nearby components? Thank you again and please keep posting videos. They're all very interesting!!!!
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Incredibly well done video!
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Nice Tips! Thank you
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Great tips, thanks for sharing!!! Greetings from Germany!
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I use to just cut the leg of a pin to disconnect it from the circut board. If I wanted to reconnect it I would then solder the cut pin back together again. It takes some sharp soldering skills but it is a supper fast way to isolate a problem. I would cut pins until I found the problem with a data line or shorted power supply, replace the bad IC and then solder the cut pins back together on the good chips where I had cut pins. Sometime I would crack an IC when clipping a pin so care has to taken with this method too especially the pins on the end of an IC
Hi, love your camera work! May I ask what your recording gear is? Thanks!
Well done. Only difference I do is use a micro scriber with a 45 degree angle near the tip, this allows much better control for me, thanks for sharing.
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Hi - love the videos and thank you! I watched your video on surface mount ic replacement. I’m worried about doing this myself and causing damage/failure. Do you perhaps have a business where I could send the patient and donor and have the work performed? Pls let me know. Thanks!!
Another great presentation. Love your work. Do you have any tips on magnification devices for soldering work?
Hi , thank you for your comment , much appreciated . I personally use a stereo long reach microscope from GT Vision . It's their own branded one and is great . It's a fifth of the price of a Meiji branded similar scope . These types of long reach scopes allow you to work on extra large boards . Any tiny work becomes a lot more manageable under these sorts of scopes . Some people who do larger work but still need magnification just use a desk mounted magnification glass . These normally come with built in lights and are available from lots of places including Amazon . I know there's also magnifying eye piece glasses but I've never used these .Hope that helps , thanks again 👍
Thank you very much. It does help. Keep making great videos.
Hi , I will try , thanks again 👍
What vision system are you using for these repairs?
Hi what microscope do you use in the video please.
Amazing technique i was wondering what kind of soldering gun do you use?
Hi , thank you for watching the video and commenting , much appreciated . The iron I used in this video was a Weller TCP S iron which is 50 watt , and the tip I used was a PTP7 ( small conical tip ), hope that helps. Glad you enjoyed the video , thanks again 👍
Great video. What cam do you use?
Nice
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Could you do a video on how to clean through holes safely without lifiting the pads?
I have a factory Bose amplifier out of a Chevrolet auto that I'm trying to repair. It works fine once it turns on but it will not turn on until it heats up. I can lightly heat up the board with a heat gun and it will pop on after 20-60 seconds. I can repeat this generic test over and over and it's the same every time. I'v tried to "re- flow" as many joints as I can get access to safety - to no success. Any idea on what components on the board may have this problem as a common characteristic? Thx
Please tell me what kind of soldering paste you use
What camera are you using ?
Had todo this to disable the reset pin out of a watchdog chip. Couldn’t figure out the issue with the watchdog circuit. So stopped it being able to reset the micro.
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How do you remove those metal shields sometimes over the MCU?
Cheers
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Hi, learned a LOT for you. 👍👍👍👍👍👍Would be easier to lift pins starting from the corner?
Hi , thank you for your comment . You may only want to lift one pin which may be in the centre of a row of pins . This may be needed for modification purposes for example. Hopefully that explains ok . Thanks again 👍
Thanks that's obviously it's obvious 👍👍👍👍 On another topic (once I am here) I do have two microscopes (one cheap, other bit better) , but still strugle with a proper lighting. Often to read what's on the component, I need to hold part on the angle by hand :-( . I wonder how you set it up, thank you. @@mrsolderfix3996
imo if you have hot air and it's not PCB with tons of copper/sinking heat, I would just remove the whole IC, put down some kapton tape below that leg, lif up the leg if you want, then solder it back down lol
Hi , thank you for your comment . Lot more work though 😆
Some people asking probably are trying to do a PS1 Xstation install.
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"Lets get physical, physical - i wanna get physical - texas instruments down my spine!" :)
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Great video and alot of great tips I've gotten from watching most ALL of your videos. I'd like to send you a picture of a small board that I need to remove and replace 2 opto sensors which are soldered to the board side by side, almost touching each other, but I can't find your email anywhere to do that and can't find anything on here of a way to contact you. EACH sensor has 5 solder points, 3 on one side and 2 right across from the 3. The sensor next to it has the same. I want to know the best way to remove these by your opnion. Thank you again Mr SolderFix !
Now... do a QFN /s
Hi , done a QFN video on my channel quite a while ago . You can't lift QFN pins . You need to take them off the board , isolate the pad with Kapton tape then refit the component , or you can remove the pad or cut the trace coming away from the pad you need to isolate . This video is simply leaded components . Thanks for your comment 👍
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