I can't believe I just soldered that

[tony3]

Well, my friend gave me his dm4 microchip to fix since one of the prongs broke off it. I was pretty sure I wouldn't be able to do it. Well, I went to radio shack and got a similar microchip for 2 bucks. I broke off 1 of the prongs on that micro chip and soldered it onto the dm4 one. These prongs are insanely small. I slightly bent back the left over of the broken prong on the dm4 chip. So the new prong would be on the outside. I put some solder on my iron and put it on the prong on the side and front. The real test would see if it would hold when I take it out. So I took it out and alas, no luck. So I tried again, and w00t, stayed with the micro chip. Pics in a bit. I'm so happy I did it.

[SAW]

Nice job tony!

[Flow_Tech]

good job.

[68magOwner]

heh, ever try soldering an impulse eye back on the eye ribbon, the stinking prongs are like 1/4mm apart, but, since kids here have made a habbit of breaking em, figured id make a habbit of fixing em, so, i fix eyes and mod switches for my spare change lol

[dahvaio]

Good job...

FYI, Flux is your friend when soldering.... I learned really quick when I was soldering Magic Chips on PS2 systems... some of the points were smaller than the 24 guage wires I was using...

[Skoad]

well, thats a good fix for the time being.

Have him call or email DYE and tell them that one of the prongs is damaged. Bet they will send him a new chip no charge within a week or 2.

[tony3]

I think it will hold fine. it not like the chip gets much abuse in there. Plus, it isn't a dye chip.

[SuiciDal Sn Y p ER]

yet you couldn't time my autococker

[tony3]

It was shooting fine, it's not my fault the timing rod was bent

pic posted.

Crap, that rug needs to be vaccumed

The new one is slightly longer, but it doesn't matter.

[SuiciDal Sn Y p ER]

lol the timing rod was perfectly fine before you touched it

[tony3]

How would you know it didn't work

[SuiciDal Sn Y p ER]

it at least didnt leak while it fired before i gave it to you

[MindJob]

yet you couldn't time my autococker

[rkjunior303]

but does the chip actually work.. i'd be worried about the solder not holding and breaking off inside of the connector.

[tony3]

it at least didnt leak while it fired before i gave it to you

It didn't even shoot...

RK-It will hold. Without the solder on the 2 pieces inside the clip were really close to eachother, with the solder it made them stay very good. The chips inside the dm4 won't much. I'm pretty confident it will hold. There are 17 other prongs holding the chip secure to the board.