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Power supply capacitor replacement kit

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Nintendo 64 Power Supply Capacitor Replacement Kit Installation Guide

needed. If you do not have soldering braid and instead have a solder sucker you can melt the solder with

the soldering iron and then rapidly suck the solder up with the solder sucker.

Soldering:

Now that the solder has been removed you can now remove the object that the solder was holding in

place and you are now ready to solder something new into place. During this project it is not safe to use

excessive soldering material as bridging between joints is very easy due to their close proximity to each

other.

The two most important things to keep in mind are:

1) Never allow patches of solder to overlap or touch, doing so creates a short, thereby rendering the

circuit inoperable.

2) Make sure to use enough solder to securely attach whatever it is you are soldering, do not be afraid

to test the joint out.

Keeping these items in mind lets continue with our demonstration. To apply the solder take it and place

it over the soldering joint and then lightly place the soldering iron over the solder. This is just like

unsoldering, although this time you are soldering and not unsoldering. This part is a little tricky when

you first start and is hard to describe with words alone. It is recommended that you test out melting

solder first to get an idea of how it behaves.

One ideal exercise you might want to try is to attempt to solder together two pieces of wire. Take two

pieces of wire, strip the ends, twist the ends together and then practice applying solder over this twisted

joint. During the course of this project if you run into trouble remember you can always back track and

remove the solder and try again, using the soldering braid. Soldering braid and solder are very cheap

and as such are worth playing around with to get comfortable with before you go ahead and try to

solder in a replacement battery. Now that we have covered the basics of soldering and unsoldering, let's

get started with the replacement of that fuse.

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