How I desolder and process SMD components - from PCB to organized storage
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- čas přidán 5. 08. 2024
- Hello! I this video I thought I'd show you how I process scrap printed circuit boards in order to obtain valuable SMD components! Using the special DIY SMD soldering iron tip I invented almost ayear ago, we totally clean out a PC motherboard, sorting the components so we can store them in an tidy manner.
If you came down to the description to look for a link to the first soldering tip video, I must dissapoint you ;-P I kept my word, here is no link, lol!
Go on my channel page to look for it!
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OMG! I was so stressed out to get the video done in time! Was never closer to missing the deadline, especially since the screenshot in the beginning features a reference to this very day!
Helpful and instructive as usual. Thank you. btw your soundtracks are awesome, especially the Japanese ones😎
I just try to make the kind of video I myself would love to watch :)
And for all those wondering, yes, I did loose a few components in the process, sometimes they just ping out of the tweezers and fly across the room.
Ah the 9th dimention technique!
I have been collecting SMD components for years... besides small zip lock bags... I use bead organizations containers. You can find these at Walmart, Michael's and Hobby Lobby. Any SMDs that are subject to static... I use small anti-static zip lock bags, but that is not too often as SMD components are not effected to much by static. Memory, MCU, CPU, ROM... these defiantly should be stored in anti-static bags or enclosures.
can't you make your own smd components organizations containers ?
I went and looked in my recommended. Yup it's there your right. 😂😂
Yup, still my most viewed video ever. Kinda hard if the only thing you're known for on the internet is a random thing you did years ago with no intentions of ever repeating :(
@@ChronicMechatronic I feel like the way your going in the end your going to be known for a lot more then a silly video years ago my friend. You just keep going how you're going and it's going to work the way you want it to.
@@effectentertainment7882 been working hard on it 😅
A tip for desoldering: Add more solder to the pads. Not only does it add fresh flux to it, it also increases the area for heat transfer thus making it easier to desolder.
great video
Thanks
please do more video about this smd please
Hi, I liked your video. I was looking for something like this for a little while. Although some people would think this is a waste of time and that it would be cheaper to source new SMD components, not everyone in the world have cheap and easy access to these components in bulk plus, reusing them helps a little to reduce the e-waste problem.
I have a question, how do you know which components are good (keep) and which are damaged (throw away)?
Very good question! I basically just keep them all. The likelihood of running across a dead component is so low as far as I know, that it's definitely not worth the time testing every single one after desoldering. Usually on dead devices, nothing will be really broken at all, most of the time, it really takes very little to upset the microcontroller so it stops working.
That being said, (specifically for smd components) resistors pretty much can only fail catastrophically, capacitors have to be tested anyway in order to figure out the values, and diodes, transistors, or MOSFETs will probably be tested anyway sooner or later when searching for a datasheet...
But other than that, the probability of finding a dead component in a broken device is really negligible. I think I only had one dead capacitor in my collection so far, and that was an electrolytic one.
Only exception are LED lamps and CFLs - they're usually designed to fry the components like crazy, and you'll frequently get dead transistors or MOSFETs.
And yes, it is a wonderful feeling to build an entire circuit board with components recovered from e-waste :)
Yeah, that's the problem with capitalism, money corrupts everything, transforming the most logical and reasonable step of reusing stuff into economical suicide...
At some point I might like to develop a robot that automatically desolders, processes, tests, and sorts SMD components from e-waste...
Guy where are you from?
You could get a hotplate and do a video
Hakko sell a tip like this.
But DIY is better 👍
What, I didn't know that! You mean the 900M-T-RT? They're charging 10 bucks for that piece of copper!? 😬😵😤
For $10 I could literally have 200 diy tips, from what I remember the copper wire cost... 🤦♂️🤦♂️
Thanks for letting me know though!
Still not convinced 😂
hi i know you remember me but can you make a tesla coil
like thisczcams.com/users/shortsYYrq63q6oTg?feature=share
I guess I probably will, some day
@@ChronicMechatronic have you seen this before? czcams.com/video/dQw4w9WgXcQ/video.html its so cool bro
Fine, but just calm down, stop shouting, and waving your arms … and you will take a whole lot more seriously. Thank you.