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Rodico, or Teachers Tack works wonders for that as well, and it is a low to no residue putty for holding things in place. side note, i hate those flux pens for desoldering work, much prefer a cheap gel flux (20g needle on the end for fine control and less waste)

Thank you very much for this great tutorial. My mouse doubliclick problem is fixed using a soldering iron for the very first time. Without you video I would have bought a new mouse.

Hello, can you not give the model from the ruler?

God damn it. I had a logitech mouse that started losing its left click stability. I pulled it apart in Feb 2020 and with a fair bit of annoyance, managed to bend the spring back and get it back together. It fixed the issue for less than a year. With the trouble I had with getting the spring back, I decided to just buy a new mouse in March 2021. Its now only just over 3 years since I got my new mouse for $99AUD (a 502 hero) and the same thing is already happening. I do like the idea of repairing 2% of the components instead of throwing out 100% of them in a wasteful manner. But 2 switches are about 10% of the cost of replacement for a new mouse + plus extra pads. But more importantly for me, I know this will cost me a several hours of my precious free time, cause me plenty of frustration and I may even break something in the process. Buying a new mouse is so much easier. I can't believe 3-4 years is all I get out of logitech mouse and keyboards these days.

Fun video well done!

I love it... I might throw that into my next JLB basket. Cheers

funny! more more :) +1

this was awesome! a small explanation on what a signal generator is in laymen terms would have helped at the start of the video as i dont have an electronics background. great video though!

Kicad is a nice PCB design tool!

The coil generator has a few shorts in the trace at the outer diameter when trace width is greater then 250um (space 200um).

subscribed... keep it up , ty!

That "transform it" plug in should be merged into the main project! thanks

That was cool thx

Awesome video. Super detailed and I feel like if I had these tools already I would attempt this repair.... But for now a solder iron and these switches are going to bring me over the cost of a new one from Amazon....

Very good video. Where can I found this PCB ?

I watched your KiCad plug in video and saw this one. Been through the mouse button issue a few times. Last time I used Kailh Red GM 4.0 switches as a replacement, probably from the same discussions you read, and they have worked great. PS: Thanks for the plug in video, I'll be trying a few of those.

Great work, excellent tutorial and review! 👍😀

Seems expensive compared to some mcu's ...

Great video. These i2c expander are an awesome integrated circuit. For educational the pcf8574 is a good choice, but, if you are developing a product, search for more recent part numbers, I think the PCF of not recomendded for new designers. The TCA9548, for example, is a good choice. Nice video.

Are you Australian?

#1121 LOL 😂🇮🇩

Pads are reusable: just use double-sided tape, it costs a pretty penny

Take an old toothbrush, 70% alcohol or something similar containing alcohol and thoroughly clean all the contacts on the boards, switches, buttons, solder points, wheel and so on. This really helps and physically replacing parts is the last thing you need to do.

If you are doing this kind of repair more often and have a soldering gun at hand, there is easy and fast method to desolder mouse switches. Watch this - czcams.com/video/kPfwK-DSiC8/video.html

BTW, to quickly desolder multiple pins at once you can use some thick copper wire and bridge them first.

I used to replace the switches in my mice. Got bored and tired of it. Bought one with optical switches. It fixed my problems with double clicking.

Desoldering needles are a cheap way to desolder though hole components, though I'll normally just do the same as you despite having both desoldering needles and a desoldering gun. I don't know about plumber's putty, but blutack does a passable job.

A copy, not pro

It's a mockery that you can't buy a solder suction

0:30 why's Nixie Tube youtube channel mentioned here?

Thank you!

Kicad version 6?

These vids are soo cool. I wonder why you have so low sub count. And please Do a full kicad tutorial. Beginner to expert series.

Another great plugin, although currently broken in v8 (in work), is kicad-action-scripts which includes a way to easily add thermal relief holes for your PCB.

Oh, it is so fun to see that you use our coil generator! There is a huge update with new features coming soon!

Kicad 7 was already capable of creating rounded tracks natively

Oh man!!! This is strongly appreciated, thanks for it!!!

That was an easy repair... but in reality most of them are. It's insane how often devices get thrown out as e-waste. I hope your well explained content makes more people curious enough to try it for themselves & recover their broken devices. Cheers!

very ambitious, hope you follow through, sounds exciting.

There have been many great comments pointing out that this was recorded in KiCad 6 and the latest release is KiCad 8. That's my mistake, but I have retested all of these plugins on the latest update and they all work as normal except for "Gerber to Order", which seems to be broken. In the mean time, until that plugin is updated, you can use "Fabrication Toolkit" for JLC PCB and it should work fine, even for other PCB manufacturers. There is an alternative called "PCBway fabrication toolkit" for PCBway, but seems this plugin has also broken during the update.

Published two weeks ago and you are using KiCad 6!!!. Come on. Update the video with KiCad 8.

Why doesn't the ruler 0 start from the edge, i see this repeatedly in this kind of electronic hobbyist rulers, is there a reason no one bothers to put the zero at the edge?

Nice repair!! I look forward to seeing what kind of videos you make next. Just a handy…. Whenever I have a through hole component with short leads, I use a piece of “plumbers putty to hold the component in place for soldering. You have to be particular with the brand you use as the lower quality will leave residue. Thanks for the video. Good luck with future ones!!

When creating a set of gerbers for JLCPCB, do you still have access to their board population service? I have used that from Easyeda, but with that I can see what parts they stock.

Maybe you should update this video from version 6 to 8? 🙂

Neatly explained and demonstrated. I liked and subscribed. Well done!

Very helpful hope you get more attention <3

Someone who isn't me broke one of those at work. Nice to see how that kind of repair is done!

nice video but why using KiCAD 6.0 ?

Very nice Tom the point video!! Thanks for sharing. Hope to see more