Task: Purchase a Smoke Absorber for Cleaning the Air While Soldering on Atari 8-Bit Computer Circuit Boards Needed: Web browser Time: 5-10 minutes Introduction As you can tell from my recent posts, I am doing much more soldering and desoldering to mod and repair precious
Read morePurchase an ESD Soldering Mat to Prevent Electrostatic Discharge While Repairing Atari 8-Bit Computer Circuit Boards (5-10 mins)
Task: Purchase an ESD Soldering Mat to Prevent Electrostatic Discharge While Repairing Atari 8-Bit Computer Circuit Boards Needed: Web browser Time: 5-10 minutes Introduction When I started doing repairs and mods on Atari 8-bit computers I purchased a silicon soldering mat (see first photo below)
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Task: Replace Faulty Capacitors on Your Atari 8-Bit Computer Circuit Board Needed: New capacitors, desoldering iron, hot air rework station, soldering iron and solder Time: 30-60 minutes Introduction Electrolytic capacitors are notoriously unreliable on retrocomputers. The capacitors used in 1970s and early 1980s on the
Read morePurchase Sockets to Make it Easy to Seat Chips on Atari 8-Bit Computer Circuit Boards (5-10 mins)
Task: Purchase Sockets to Make it Easy to Seat Chips on Atari 8-Bit Computer Circuit Boards Needed: Web Browser Time: 5-10 minutes Introduction I have been posting about tools and technology that can be used to assist with the repair of non-working Atari 8-bit computers.
Read morePurchase a Desoldering Iron for Removing Bad Chips from Atari 8-Bit Computer Circuit Boards (30-60 mins)
Task: Purchase a Desoldering Iron for Removing Bad Chips from Atari 8-Bit Computer Circuit Boards Needed: Desoldering Iron, Circuit Board, Hot Air Rework Station Time: 30-60 minutes Introduction Repairing Atari 8-Bit Computers inevitably requires removing and replacing bad chips. Some 800XLs, such as those made
Read morePurchase a Soldering Station for Atari Electronics and Hardware Projects (10-15 mins)
Task: Purchase a Soldering Station for Atari Electronics and Hardware Projects Needed: Web browser Time: 10-15 mins Introduction I took a year of electronics in high school and did a lot of soldering. In fact, I used to fix tube televisions people from the community
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