Reply 20 of 24, by cyclone3d
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wrote:Sad thing is there are only a few Pentium II\III slot-1(or 370) motherboards which are in fully working condition. - I have many […]
Sad thing is there are only a few Pentium II\III slot-1(or 370) motherboards which are in fully working condition.
- I have many motherboards but all have exploded capacitors. Good luck in changing 20+pcs of caps 😢
- I then bought a "restored" socket A motherboard online and even it had at least 1pc of cap replaced.
- Soon those slot-1 adapters will be pretty much useless.
Replacing caps is super easy. I've recapped power supplies and motherboards as well as some on a few video cards.
All you really need is a good soldering iron, some solder paste style flux and some good solder. Also a wire brush to clean the soldering iron tip or one of those fancier style tins that has something like steel wool in it that you just plunge the iron into to clean it off.
1. Tin your soldering iron tip
2. put some paste style flux on the solder joint.
3. Melt the solder on one leg of the capacitor and then tip the capacitor the opposite way so it pulls that leg out part way.
4. Repeat on the opposite leg
5. Repeat 3 and 4 until both legs are free.
And if you really want to make it easy, a hot-air rework station works a treat as well. And if you want to suck the solder from the holes, then a vacuum desoldering station works best - a real one, not those crappy Chinese things with a "vacuum pump" built into a soldering iron.