Can't help you on the Tektronics scope, unfortunately. For the solder thing, it's a bit of a religion if you ask me. There are lots and lots of discussions online about it. Here are my views. Use high quality, lead based, name brand solder. Kester is awesome. RadioShack's actually used to be good, but the most recent spools I've gotten from them (while still lead based) are complete garbage. I usually hover between 300 C and 375 C on my Hakko station. Start on the low side, crank it up if you are having trouble getting a pad to heat properly (due to large ground planes, thicker traces, etc.) Keep your soldering tip clean, I highly recommend the soldering tip cleaners and the brass "brillo pad" style cleaners. Don't use a wet sponge, too much thermal shock and then delay while your iron recovers. And the brass cleaners do a REALLY nice job. You'll eventually find your preferred settings, which will vary based on the board (or even section of a board) you are working on, your style, the solder, the iron, environmental temperature, etc. There are some great videos on YouTube on teaching proper soldering technique, but you will develop your own style. Practice makes perfect. :) -Todd On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 9:19 AM Neil Cherry via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
I was working on my Atari 600xl the other day and was using the scope to see if it was working. I get a nice clean color TV signal (sorry no working NTSC TV) until I bumped the scope and it went out of sync. No amount of fiddling with the buttons and dials helped get back that pretty signal but I could see it was still there.
So now I want to service the Tektronics scope but I'm not sure where to start.
Next up on the top 10 list is: does anyone have pointers for solder types and temperature setting for solder and desoldering stations?
I have a 30 year old Weller station that heats perfectly for older 60/40. I have a newer Hakko (?) with 2 tips (I think 700 and 800F). And I have the cheap (but working) Aoyue which is adjustable. Obviously leaving it turned up to 11 (480) is not a good idea as that will just burn it out and damage the work.
Any pointers, recommendations, links ... etc?
Thanks
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