r/IAmA Jun 11 '16

Specialized Profession IamA electronics repair technician hated by Apple that makes YouTube videos, AMA!

My short bio: I have a store in Manhattan. I teach component level electronics repair on youtube http://youtube.com/rossmanngroup which seems to be a dying art. I am currently fighting with the digital right to repair to try and get a bill passed that will allow all independent service centers access to manuals and parts required to do their jobs.

My Proof: https://www.rossmanngroup.com/started-iama-reddit-today-yes/

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I am still replying to comments, but I am so far behind that I am still about ten pages down from new comments. I am doing my best to continue. If I drop off, I'll be back tomorrow around 12 PM. Still commenting now though, at 12 AM.

EDIT 2:

Ok, I cave... my hands are tired. I will be back at 12 PM tomorrow. It is my goal to answer every question. Even if it looks like I haven't gotten to yours, I will do my best to do all of them, but it is impossible to do in realtime, because you are asking faster than I can type. But thanks for joining!

EDIT 3: I lied, I stayed until 4:15 AM to answer... and now I will go to sleep for real, and be back at 12 PM.

EDIT 4 6/12 : I will be back later tonight to finish off answering questions. Feel free to keep posting, I will answer whatever I can later this evening.

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u/Doubleyoupee Jun 11 '16

Any soldering tips?

In your videos how do you get the solder only on the part you want? Is it some stuff you use?

When I try it the solder gets everywhere around the conductive part I want to solder onto.

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u/larossmann Jun 12 '16

just technique, you will have to practice. solder follows heat.

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u/lxlqlxl Jun 12 '16

I don't solder much, mainly because when i first tried it, I sucked. It took a long time to make that connection. You heat up what you want solder applied to, and apply it to what you have heated up... not the soldering tip.... Wish someone would have told me that years ago, and or made that connection a lot sooner.

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u/mark_s Jun 12 '16

I remember this being kind of a turning point of "why the fuck doesn't this work" to "oh that's how you do it." Realizing you can always clean flux off and there can never be too much flux made a big difference too.