Removed My First Caps

paulliadis

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I started my cap kit on my Donkey Kong Junior audio board last night. Actually, I started Monday, but I couldn't get my $20 Radio Shack battery powered soldering iron hot enough. Tuesday I bought an $8 plugin jobby from Sears and am now in business.

Once I got the hang of the braid, things went pretty smooth. I have to say there's something strangely hypnotic about seeing that little bit of smoke and then seeing the solder get "sucked up" into the braid.

I got a little tired at the end there, though, and removed a cap I didn't need to remove (TR372), but I can just solder that back in. Oh well.

Tonight the new caps get soldered and I hopefully get some sound out of this bad boy.
 
Good to hear. I need motivation to recap all of these old monitors that I have laying around. Let us know how it turns out!
 
Didn't get to continue work on this last night. Kid was up until 9:00, then I had to go to the store to buy him diapers. By the time I was back it was 10:00 and not the ideal time to be soldering and such.

Hopefully tonight I'll get this thing fixed.
 
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