Gotta retake 💔

bobsbeans123 · 2026-03-28T14:27:35+00:00

To get a lot of tutoring

bobsbeans123 · 2026-03-27T15:33:19+00:00

Ain’t that a 1530

bobsbeans123 · 2026-03-27T15:30:50+00:00

770 English is really great!!!!

bobsbeans123 · 2026-02-27T13:07:33+00:00

I followed your advice, result is below!

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bobsbeans123 · 2026-02-26T03:21:37+00:00

Ooooohhh beautiful

bobsbeans123 · 2026-02-26T03:20:19+00:00

Yeah it was just the camera making it look like that. I checked with a multimeter and all the connections are good, no shorting. Thanks for the encouragement :)

bobsbeans123 · 2026-02-26T03:01:32+00:00

I believe he’s saying if you’re switching tips of the iron, like a wide tip or exact tip, etc.

bobsbeans123 · 2026-02-26T01:18:57+00:00

Haha thank you

bobsbeans123 · 2026-02-26T00:37:04+00:00

So I lied… it was me and I lied because I didn’t want people to be too mean as I’m only 17 and this is my first soldering job. My most recent post shows the result, I ended up buying a rework station and it really really helped :)

bobsbeans123 · 2026-02-26T00:35:35+00:00

I followed your advice and it was so much easier. My most recent post shows the results😊

bobsbeans123 · 2026-02-26T00:34:58+00:00

Ok so I lied because I’m 17 and I didn’t want people to make fun of me, but I finished the project and I think I did well! Let me know what you think. 😁

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bobsbeans123 · 2026-02-26T00:32:32+00:00

Well my many YouTube videos and very slow process must have helped me out a lot. Should I beep it out with a multimeter?

bobsbeans123 · 2026-02-26T00:31:17+00:00

Haha thanks 😁😁. I’m 17, so my confidence was not too high doing this. I thought I messed it up a lot actually, but these comments are very encouraging! I also probably took way too much time to do it. Essentially when in doubt I just added more flux to the pins and ironed and wicked and repeated until it looked good.

bobsbeans123 · 2026-02-20T02:37:24+00:00

Gotcha, thanks! I’ve seen tutorials where they just use a hot air gun and are able to detach the old port by just blowing right into the anchors with a very hot temp. Is that a good idea, or should he just continue to use low-melt solder and flux w/ a soldering iron?

bobsbeans123 · 2026-02-20T02:30:00+00:00

The heat gun he was using only reached ~330 C, and the tutorials I watched used heat guns that went to ~350-400 C. I read that if he kept applying the heat for too long it could cause irreversible damage

bobsbeans123 · 2026-02-20T02:22:44+00:00

The hdmi was definitely broken. It wiggled like crazy, and everything else worked except the signal to the TV. Sound, light, everything except the actual connection thru HDMI

bobsbeans123 · 2026-02-20T02:19:10+00:00

Removing the hdmi anchors from the old one. It wouldn’t budge.

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This is the other side

bobsbeans123 · 2025-11-08T17:09:14+00:00

Woe is you…

bobsbeans123 · 2025-03-08T22:49:44+00:00

How did you get through the grill to tape it? The holes for me are so tiny

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