Author Topic: Need literally everything to start soldering/desoldering. 70 dollar budget USD.  (Read 1779 times)

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Offline husainTopic starter

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So I think the title explains everything pretty well, I have only 70 bucks to get everything I need to start soldering. I don't mind chinese knockoffs but I want something that feels decent as I doubt I am going to upgrade soldering stations anytime soon. (I don't have very much money and this is a big purchase for me)

So my parts list / needs are as follows:
Soldering station
Desoldering wick
Solder
and maybe some better / more useful tips?

So far I have been eyeing up the hakko 936 knock off by aoyue as a good starting point. (link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000VINMRO)
But thats as far as I've gotten really.

I am mainly buying this to do simple solder work while building my way up to more complicated stuff. Mainly want to get around to soldering a 3ds to do a nand dump but I am not trying that until I am confident I won't be destroying anything. (the pads for a 3ds nand dump are about 0.3mm)

So to give you guys a better idea of what I am eventually hoping to do here is a picture of the solder points along with a finger for scale. ignore the blue wire I won't need to use that point, the ones I will be using look like the gold pads

« Last Edit: December 18, 2014, 11:15:33 am by husain »
 

Offline Howardlong

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This: http://www.amazon.com/Digital-Rework-Soldering-Station-11-Piece/dp/B0086RA11C/ref=sr_1_3?s=hi&ie=UTF8&qid=1418915983&sr=1-3&keywords=898D

I've had one for over four years and use it extensively (lifted circa 1,000 QFN parts with it in that time). It has a 0.2mm tip, I recommend having spares of this tip if you're going to use it a lot, after a while it'll corode.
 


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