One handy tool is the SMD soldering tweezers – useful not only for manual soldering of parts, but also for de-soldering them quickly and without causing damage to the part or the board.

It started when [Mitxela] was faced with about a hundred incorrectly-placed 0603 parts. Given that he already owned two TS101 soldering irons, a 3D printer, and knows how to use FreeCAD (he had ...

Popular console repair YouTube channel TronicsFix has discovered that the PS5 Pro heatsink isn’t glossy-smooth – it features a rectangular spiral surface detail.

The supplied soldering iron is 130W and can reach maximum temperature within 10s, while the surface-mount tweezers are 100W. A 150W iron will be available as an extra, as will be a 50W iron. Range is ...

It does not have de-soldering tweezers of any size, but instead has a hand-held de-soldering iron and a matching vacuum pump. As an example, find T0053457699, the tweezer-equipped kit for reworking ...

Here’s a nice video from Steve Dahl of Digikey showing how you can use a heat gun to solder high-brightness LEDs to an aluminum substrate heat sink. In the demo he uses a Steinel programmable heat gun ...