r/soldering

Guys help I saw an iron for the first time today and as soon as I touched it I decided that I want to start a business fixing controllers. I took in a few customers but I kinda screwed up. Is it fixable

Yes I tore each of the pads and I kind of burnt a hole through the board and instead of using solder I used an old fishing weight and melted it and also idk what flux is and here is my iron

I've soldered about 30 ps5 controllers and only ever had issues on my first one and this last one.

I used liquid flux, no clean for all of them and today I switched to a paste: MG chemicals 8342 rosin flux paste.

I used a 14 pin adapter on my soldering station and first applied leaded solder to all pins like I always do., then I put the paste on and put the iron to it. Both sticks came out after about 10 seconds on 380c. Then I grabbed the new stick and pushed it in, worked..somewhat but you can see in the photos how its lopsided. I tried on the other side afterwards for the second stick and couldn't get them to line up correctly.

Long story short..the board has discolored. I don't think it was the temp, I didn’t have it any higher than I usually do. Sometimes I even go up to 400c. Could it have been the paste or did I burn the board?

just a burn I wouldn't really worry, but it went in a bit so I'm a bit concerned. just a little hole in my pinky where it went in. Guess the concern is lead entering the blood. or maybe some getting trapped in there. Doesn't look like there is. should I be concerned?

Hello! My soldering is questionable, and I am a beginner. Can you please give me any suggestions you might have? These are my first attempts. Ground is funky.

Yea ignore the sink its an old useless bathroom that we ditched years ago and now it's my workshop😭😭

If it works, it works... right? 😭

My first time recapping, and it was on an amplifier PSU. Unfortunately I was using a cheap soldering iron with the temperature control on the handle. At some point I knocked the dial to the max temperature, 450c, and managed to burn a hole in the board. Is there anyway to fix it, or is that the board gone?

I checked and there’s no bridges, but I want some tips. I used a hot air station to first remove the connector, replaced solder, removed solder, put new solder on then put the connector back (the connector isn’t new it’s still the old one but I’m treating this like practice)

I might have to strap it down so it doesn't fly away!!! lol 😎

Hello guys, I found this soldering iron forgotten in a drawer and I'd like to get into soldering. Is it any good? The tip looks a bit damaged can it be fixed or sanded or should I replace it?

How am I supposed to proceed my solder iron not melting the solder off

Hello, I wanted to ask that is it Ok if I store the tip in oil to prevent corrosion. This is not my primary iron; I use it for melting plastic and not soldering so I don't want to tin it everytime I melt plastic plus this is a cheap chonese variant. Any other methods with which I can prevent corrosion would be awesome too. Thanks.

Im officially the best high schooler at soldering in my city. Id love to hear your thoughts and experiences.

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Using 60/40 solder and no clean flux

Using lead free solder (SAC305), everything adhered fine but some of the joints are not shiny and look a bit dusty, did I do something wrong here? I used plenty of flux. Had my Pinecil set to 360°. I had some problems with the tip tinning at some point so bought lead free tip thinner from thermaltronics which I only started using after the sp1 and sp2 joints.

Everything has been working fine once the device was back together but I’m worried the joints aren’t strong and it will stop working, or maybe it’s normal for them to be not shiny?