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First time soldering in 28 years. C&C highly appreciated
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tangelo:
Hello community.

I did a few simple DIY kits at school when I was ~10 years old. Now 28+ years later I wanted to try this again (due to wanting to be able to fix some basic electronic stuff and not just throw it away).

Here is my first attempt. Any comments & criticisms about the solders joints is highly welcome.
Did I make any glaring mistakes? What aspect should I focus on honing more/next?

I used a T12 clone with D16 tip and a 63/37 0.8mm solder.

Cheers
tooki:
You’re gonna have to post some much better photos to get any kind of detailed critique, since the joints aren’t in focus and so there’s no way to evaluate them. The only thing I can see is that many of the small pads have too much solder — it should never be bulging. (The ideal shape is slightly concave.) A finer solder might help with those smaller pads.
nigelwright7557:
Looks fine to me and I have been soldering for 40 years !
I like to see plenty of solder on joints and not just a thin covering.

The biggest challenge these days is fine scale SMD components.
I recently had to try to hand solder a 64 pin TQFP PIC micro on 0.5mm pitch !
I found the trick in the end was blob loads of solder on all 4 sides with plenty of flux.
Then apply more flux and remove excess solder with copper braid.
I had added rows of via's next to the PIC so I could buzz out for shorts.
In about 5 pcb's I just failed on one where I had pushed too hard with the soldering iron and bent a couple of pins.
I couldn't straighten so it had to go in the bin. I just put it down to the cost of learning.


 
Siwastaja:
Looks OK. As for tooki's comment about amount of solder, I agree you could use maybe 10-20% less solder, but it isn't too excessive to cause any problem.
tangelo:
Thanks for the feedback guys.

I did a few more DIY-kits and used thinner solder and concentrated on using less of it and the results do look better and more of that "slightly concave"
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