Am I nuts for doing this?

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Does anyone else reflow the solder on anything and everything that somewhat looks suspect? I've been rebuilding k7000, k7200, k7203, etc.. And everyone of them has tons of joints that look like they are barely held together or I can see the ring (break) in them.. I must spend an extra hour or more on these just touching up 100's of joints..

Am I being to anal?
 
Does anyone else reflow the solder on anything and everything that somewhat looks suspect?

I do. It's the only way to ensure reliability. The soldering quality on these old monitors is frequently very poor, so yeah, I spend a fair bit of extra time going around and redoing anything that looks suspect. Initial poor quality, age, heat, vibration - it all takes its toll, and a sea of cold solder joints is the result.

Of course, on the other side of that, having seen and fixed hundreds of things whose only failures were cold solder joints will also stress the importance of being thorough.

-Ian
 
i do as well takes time but it is worth knowing that it was done rite.

i don't like doing a rework on a chassis that i have to pay shipping on for a customer.

every K7000 i do gets an over haul. plus the others i do.

Peace
Buffett
 
Too anal? Absolutely NOT. That just means that you're doing it right.

The guy that taught me how to fix monitors gave me one piece of advice that I carry over to everything: that if you're going to do something, do it right the first time.

If you already have the chassis out, iron hot, and are already sitting down, go to town with the solder. It's cheap insurance.

Any chassis I work on I resolder the entire power supply, neckboard, and any other suspect joints.
 
Well I must be doing something right :) as I just brought back a k7200 from the dead.. New fly, new caps, new donor tube, nos remote pcb..

Thing looks and runs like new.. Awesome
 
I used to.
Until I bought a new batch of solder in that contains environmentally friendly crappy chemicals that seems to turn each solder joint hazy, now I resolder only what I must :)
 
Anal is the wrong word, you mean "meticulous". It is all in the spelling.

I am very meticulous, and always repair suspect joints prior to smoking them when you fire it up.
 
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