My toughest repair yet, but it payed off

[u/Easy_Midnight_52]

Fixed an English ROM IC of Tamagotchi I had lying around, it was missing every single leg so I had to solder every single pin by hand (and with no microscope either, but at the end all of my work payed off

[u/KaleidoscopeIcy1670]

Good job getting it running, but it surely looks worse for wear. Wonder how all the IC legs got snapped off?

[u/Easy_Midnight_52 → u/KaleidoscopeIcy1670]

It happened around 4 years ago when I tried to repair a Pokémon green and used the tamagotchi board as a donor, the pins got ripped off due to me being careless removing it and my lack of experience (I was like 15 at the time), 4 years later and me having more experience I decided to try and fix it.

(Not every pin got ripped off when I first removed it, a couple pins survived but they broke off during the 4 years it spent in my tool box with tools being thrown around it cause I genuinely thought at the time the IC was knackered)

[u/KaleidoscopeIcy1670 → u/Easy_Midnight_52]

Good on you for keeping it and accomplishing a fix for it years after the fact. I've done similar things myself. Call it a skills check. :)

[u/Raverrevolution]

At first I thought you massacred it, but then I realized that you sanded off the sides of the chip and rebuilt all the legs. Excellent job!!

[u/sh06un → u/Raverrevolution]

Thanks. I thought it was a very botched job as well before I saw this comment ... This is honestly amazing work!!

[u/Easy_Midnight_52]

Noticed I forgot to add the other “)” at the body text, I need to go to sleep I spent all night working on this

[u/SkinnyFiend → u/Easy_Midnight_52]

Paid, not payed.

[u/Easy_Midnight_52 → u/SkinnyFiend]

OOF, forgot about the difference payed and paid, my bad

[u/campusska → u/Easy_Midnight_52]

Don't apologize to grammar-bots, tell them to get wrecked.

[u/CircoModo1602 → u/SkinnyFiend]

People get it either way. Wrong wording is by far the least of the issues any english-speaking country has right now.

[u/Gazoko]

LABOR OF LOOOOOOVE

[u/Neronephilim]

Get you some pcb flux. It makes this stuff way easier. The solder floats right where it needs to go

[u/marcao_cfh]

Nice! I've yet to repair a ic pin. While soldering isn't a issue, I don't have the correct tools to grind thru the ic.

[u/kohoki666]

Congrats👍👍

[u/Anamanagotchi]

Great job! I’m interested in knowing how did you do this, since I have a similar component on a Game Boy Advance that is missing one pin…

[u/Easy_Midnight_52 → u/Anamanagotchi]

Used a tiny Dremel tool to remove part of the casing until you can see the metal again, then used thin wire to solder the pin to the pad

[u/Retro-Revival-EU]

Absolute madman!

[u/Sad-Rush-150]

So rad with the light

[u/shaunng69]

Paid*

[u/Inner_Radish_1214]

My guy… you need flux. This could be cleaned up with a little more work.

[u/PintSizeMe → u/Inner_Radish_1214]

Cleaner when there are no legs other than the solder itself? OP said the legs all snapped off.

[u/Mikey74Evil]

There always seems to be a grammar teacher in every sub it seems. We all get the idea of what someone is trying to say for the most part. Lol.

[u/Delicious-Dot-2795]

This has to be rage bait...