Take a lousy NES cart and practice de-soldering the chips. Wait for it to get hot, squeeze the bulb, put the little hole around a pin, angle it so that its touching the pin and release the bulb. It sucks up the solder. Assuming you now see air around the pin, take your finger nail and push against the pin so that it detaches from the side of the hole (makes a little snap). Repeat this for every pin. If you cant get the solder to suck out of the hole, melt some fresh solder with the old stuff.
Honestly, as long as you dont screw up the de-soldering stage, you'll be fine.
I'm thinking, I could probably help some people out with this.
The only soldering/de-soldering to be done is:
1)desolder CPU
2)solder in CPU socket
3)de-solder old capacitor
4)solder new capacitor
5)Optionally solder a wire from pin 16 to copynes board if you plan to use a RAM cart (and for some reason this isnt working for me)
I could buy the correct sockets and capacitors at a local electronics store and do steps 1-4 on one of my spare units and then sell that to people who bought a copynes to assemble it themself without having to do any soldering at all. (assuming they dont plan to do the RAM cart option which they could always do themselves afterwards anyways).
And since I can put the CPU back in the socket, the person can check the unit when they get it that it works.
I sent bunnyboy an email asking about the specs for the capacitor. Once I have that, I can easily go about doing this for people. Theres a place nearby that sells the correct socket for 75 cents a piece. The cap is likely 50cents. I already have spare units and a box of new 72 pin connectors. So yeah I'll look into this over the next few days assuming I have time. My wife made me install a chandelier which took me 3 days (cause I suck). Being the genius I am, I had the wrong breaker turned off the first day, and yet I'm still alive.
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Picked up my copynes from the post office, put it together and tried it out.
Works like a charm.
Al
I wish I had the tools/skills to put mine together! It looks nice, but thats about all it does right now
I wish I had the tools/skills to put mine together! It looks nice, but thats about all it does right now
Haha...same story here, bro.
1300 posts...w00t
Picked up my copynes from the post office, put it together and tried it out.
Works like a charm.
Al
Where can I get a copynes usb?
I contacted Kevin who made the "old" copynes but no answer....
I found it myself, 5 sec after I posted this
Retrozone right?
I think the only dfficult part is the de-soldering stage.
Using this de-soldering iron $15. (http://www.thesourcecc.com/estore/Product.aspx?language=en-CA&catalog=Online&category=Soldering+Tools&product=6412200)
Take a lousy NES cart and practice de-soldering the chips. Wait for it to get hot, squeeze the bulb, put the little hole around a pin, angle it so that its touching the pin and release the bulb. It sucks up the solder. Assuming you now see air around the pin, take your finger nail and push against the pin so that it detaches from the side of the hole (makes a little snap). Repeat this for every pin. If you cant get the solder to suck out of the hole, melt some fresh solder with the old stuff.
Honestly, as long as you dont screw up the de-soldering stage, you'll be fine.
Al
We also have a vacuum pen that work like the bulb your talking about.
I heard that heating components too much can damage them, so I guess heating the chip too long isn't advisable.
I've never thought about that before since we always trash the components we de-solder at work
But when I get my copynes usb, I must be a bit careful
I'm thinking, I could probably help some people out with this.
The only soldering/de-soldering to be done is:
1)desolder CPU
2)solder in CPU socket
3)de-solder old capacitor
4)solder new capacitor
5)Optionally solder a wire from pin 16 to copynes board if you plan to use a RAM cart (and for some reason this isnt working for me)
I could buy the correct sockets and capacitors at a local electronics store and do steps 1-4 on one of my spare units and then sell that to people who bought a copynes to assemble it themself without having to do any soldering at all. (assuming they dont plan to do the RAM cart option which they could always do themselves afterwards anyways).
And since I can put the CPU back in the socket, the person can check the unit when they get it that it works.
Al
Al