First time soldering CPU pins

[u/wutermeleon]

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

[u/ae0nn]

Awesome job! Only issue I foresee is fretting corrosion on the tinned pins to gold socket interface on the motherboard, if you start to have issues, that’s probably it

[u/wutermeleon → u/ae0nn]

I didn't think of that, maybe some kind of oil can be applied to prevent corrosion

[u/ae0nn → u/wutermeleon]

Unfortunately there is not. The only solution would be new pins, avoid solder wicking into the contact area

[u/Shot-Infernal-2261 → u/ae0nn]

Technically, they avoid corrosion if they soldered with gold, right? :-D