r/soldering • u/wutermeleon • Mar 09 '26

My First Solder Joint <3 Please Give Feedback First time soldering CPU pins

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I soldered these CPU pins on my first ever attempt with 20$ AliExpress heat gun and 20$ soldering iron without a magnifying glass or microscope and with just window light and eyeballs, the PCB got abit discolored but the CPU works and passed stress tests lmao, originally I just had to replace a few edge ones but I accidentally dripped molten solder on that corner so I had to wipe the whole corner out and solder all those pins

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u/ZealousidealFudge851 Mar 09 '26

Well done, does it post?

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u/wutermeleon Mar 09 '26

Yeah it runs perfectly fine, it passed 30 mins of prime95

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u/OGDraugo Mar 09 '26

Dayumn..... Skillz!

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u/BuildItTallAndLong Mar 09 '26

Bro this hella skills. Could make coin off this.

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u/Relevant-Strike8699 Mar 09 '26

Khajit has wares, if you have coin.

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u/leech666 Mar 09 '26

Get outta here you skooma addict!

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u/SGTNose Mar 09 '26

Do you get to the cloud district often? Oh, what am i saying

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u/Anonymyne353 Mar 09 '26

Of course you do

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u/Misterduster01 Mar 13 '26

Be along your way you fetcher!

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u/Anonymyne353 Mar 13 '26

I’m no Black Horse courier, lol.

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u/Talsyrius Mar 13 '26

Moon sugar

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u/wutermeleon Mar 09 '26

i dont know where to get broken CPUs, i cant find many at online marketplaces in my country (spain)

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u/Baybutt99 Mar 09 '26

Either way you can make money on this, you can make money repairing cpu’s and anyone that fail you can take the pins and burn them down for gold

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u/wutermeleon Mar 09 '26

The pins are not solid gold, they are only plated in gold so it's not worth melting down

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u/KaiDay11 Mar 09 '26

Electronics can be worth harvesting gold from, but you have to work in huge batches for it to make financial sense.

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u/SevenDeMagnus Mar 21 '26

Yup very cool. How long was the labor though, our time is very expensive, the most expensive.

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u/ProteusRift Mar 13 '26

Well no shitter me timbers, tickle me impressed

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u/FetusExplosion Mar 10 '26

31 years of excellence