[ale] OT: but PC related

[Raj Wurttemberg]

I use a Hakko desoldering gun, but I see some snice small units on eBay for less than $100.  The desoldering gun makes it so that I spend very little time heating the board and components.  I can usually get a 16-pin DIP out in under a minute. 

/Raj


-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of William Bagwell
Sent: Friday, October 16, 2015 5:09 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
Subject: Re: [ale] OT: but PC related

Thanks, may give it a try myself, practice on a junk computer first. Just need to find my isolated base soldering station and refresh my rusty skills. 
Hmm, my soldering station is an antique its self. Wonder if it has capacitors in it?

Reason I asked about price is that were I used to work we often sent out machine control cards for recapping and the price always seemed to be exactly half what a replacement card / board etc would run.

William

On Thursday 15 October 2015, Raj Wurttemberg wrote:
> Hey William,
>
> Well.. I do the recapping myself, for myself... so the cost if just parts.
> Capacitors are cheap and I usually order 10 of each at a time so the 
> cost is probably under $5 for each C64.  I don’t generally do RCaaS 
> (ReCapping as a Service) but I'm always happy to help people keep 
> their childhood systems and memories alive.
>
> /Raj



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