Coury fumbles through modding his first console

I like that sticker on your PVM. It looks good there 👍🏻

Coury's Mod Shop!!! Awesome video, you really are getting into this. Thanks for sharing your progress. I like the different perspective; watching someone who's learning versus an expert. It's inspirational.

RetroMorgan89

well done!

Attila Nagy

Nice first mod Coury! How did you determine the lengths of the jumper wires? I am a novice at soldering and I always worry that having too much or too little slack will put extra stress on the joints.

Nice tool upgrades! This stuff is a rabbit hole, I buy consoles just to repair for fun sometimes. I see that you are holding your iron kind of vertical, if you hold your tool a little more horizontally flat to the board you are working on you may get better heat and solder will flow a little easier.

Very nice iron! That's much better than what I started with and will certainly save you many headaches.

Mark Petocz

Good call! In this case, where would I have tested with the multimeter? The two points I soldered?

My Life in Gaming

Agreed. And as Kairu said, don’t be afraid to use those tweezers to hold things in place and prevent injury.

Sean Quinn

Thank you! I wondered why all the stuff I’ve seen before the stripped wire wasn’t little strands like mine and this makes so much more sense now! I have to admit, I’m liking all of this far more than I ever expected.

My Life in Gaming

Great Job Coury! As other's have said I would also recommend pre-tinning your stripped wire ends before you attach it to whatever you are soldering to, It makes it easier to adhere to the point you are soldering to and also gives you a stronger solder joint.

Great job, Coury! Keep it up! I know we’re all looking forward to see more console mods from you in the future.

Sean Quinn

Thank you 🙏🏾!

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My Life in Gaming

Coury, please post a link to the soldering kit you purchased.

Congrats, it's a great feeling to accomplish it on your own. Keep challenging yourself :) A tip or two: I'd recommend applying some flux and solder to the stripped wire before trying to mate it with a pin or via on the board (that alligator clamp will help with that; clamp the stripped wire, hold the soldering iron tip on the underside of the stripped strand and touch the solder to the top and it will flow). Also, those tweezers work great for both positioning/holding the wire where you want it without burning yourself, and can apply pressure near the end of the wire against the board. Also, one can get cheap auto-wire strippers on EBay and they make that process sooo much easier. Voultar's NS1 N64 RGB kit is a good project for a beginner (it was one of my first projects last year)

Very nice work! I'm no expert at this but I have a couple of suggestions that could make things easier for you. 1. Always pre-tin both ends before soldering. If you apply a bit of flux and solder to each part independently it's a lot easier to get them to join cleanly later with just a touch from the soldering iron. 2. When stripping wire/cable always strip as little as possible. 3. Before plugging anything in test your connections with a multimeter in continuity mode.

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