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Soldering board. Will this still work?
NOOBinDistress:
Hello. I am making the 50 dollar robot boar right now. When I first started making it. My dad was trying to show me how to weld and did the part where you add the very first thing and weld it. Well instead of welding each when seperately he accidently smudged them all together so now that I am at the part where I connect the yellow were I can not see which part to put the wire to because everything is soldered over. If I just guess about where it is will it still work or is the project already totally ruined :'(. Please help me out. Thanks.
Somchaya:
Hmm.. by weld, I think you mean solder?
Anyway, some of the parts are supposed to be soldered together. If you click on the some of the images on the page, it'll link to an image that's color-coded and tells you which should be soldered together.
Compare what you have with the pictures. Here's one before the wires are attached: http://www.societyofrobots.com/images/sbs_connect1_large.JPG
If all the parts are soldered together into a big blob, then probably the electronics won't work, but the project is not ruined! You can either use a different part of the board and redo the soldering, or you can clean up the parts that were soldered together wrongly, using a solder wick, or a solder sucker. See http://www.geocities.com/mistertippy/howto/desolder.html for some instructions on desoldering if you need to :)
Good luck! My guess is that only a few parts may have gotten soldered together wrongly, so separating them shouldn't be too bad..
ed1380:
same thing happened to me, since I used a blunt tip gun. get 2 or 3 of the soldered pins hot so its liquid and hit it againts the table, so the solder flies down. repeat as necesary
NOOBinDistress:
Yah thanks I will try that. I think I will add a pic, so you can see what is wrong.
NOOBinDistress:
It wont let me add my picture. IT says the max size is 450kb.What do I do?
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