how do you know if you have a solder bridge?

**crashwarped** · 07-02-2003,09:01 PM

If the legs on your chip look like this .. then you probably have a solder bridge.

**Bgnome** · 07-03-2003,12:09 AM

dude, that was so funny, i actually cried..

**Rotosound_rb666** · 07-03-2003,09:14 AM

Agreed. Please say you staged that one, man, if someone did that DISARM THEM! give them grey glue and tell them it's the latest no heat solder, god forbid, before they see if their sodering iron works any better if they hold it by the hot end.

That's how I fix solder bridges, in truth, I "solder flood" all the legs with as much solder as I can keep flowing, for as long as I can keep it flowing, and then throw down a bunch of braid. Got to get it all behind all those legs, to assimilate those damn pesky solder balls that live in there, but I never let anyone see it like that, they freak.

**Rotosound_rb666** · 07-03-2003,09:20 AM

Can I use that as an ad-poster-tee shirt? with a caption like "Need Help With that Modchip?" or something? That one is so classicly hysterical.

fooniman · 07-03-2003,09:23 AM

LOL, That Is One HELL OF A Solder Bridge!

briguy1279 · 07-03-2003,09:39 AM

I let my girlfriend try to solder on a dead board once and it ended up looking like that

. Of course she got pissed at me for laughing my butt off, but you know how that goes. Thanks for the laugh!

**loy** · 07-03-2003,09:52 AM

some soldering braid will help that

Szwaba67 · 07-03-2003,10:23 AM

looked good to me!

**N£TM£ÇH** · 07-03-2003,01:17 PM

take some desoldering braid and coat it with a little bit of flux and get all that solder off of there.. after that test the ps2 and hopefully it will work... i would not try to solder again... you should have a pro do it for you...

**l_oliveira** · 07-03-2003,01:40 PM

Soldering braid ? Nah ... Heat it up and flow the solder (beware to don't spill it out or you get your problem worse

)

2 minutes in my hand and it's fixed ...
The trick also works for putting QFPs back into place (Chips like PSone CPU or one of the big chips on the back side of the PS2 mobo.)

Yeah, as I fix dead PS2 mobos, I eventually change chips like the drive DSP (a nice 208 pin QFP)

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