I fixed a thing!

"DancesWithRotors - Driving Insightfully" (danceswithrotors) 01/10/2016 at 11:36 • Filed to: None

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After repairing 600 terrible solder joints done by a guy at Mitsubishi who didn’t give a shit, this is the result.

Below is the terrible board layout for two of the three PCBs.

area man > DancesWithRotors - Driving Insightfully 01/10/2016 at 11:51

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Those switches look fun as hell

Urambo Tauro > DancesWithRotors - Driving Insightfully 01/10/2016 at 11:52

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Wow! That’s a handy skill. I bet you could fix a bad PCM/ECM/etc. if you had to.

itranthelasttimeiparkedit > DancesWithRotors - Driving Insightfully 01/10/2016 at 11:53

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that radio is awesome, whats it from?

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > DancesWithRotors - Driving Insightfully 01/10/2016 at 12:13

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At least it’s all through-hole and not surface-mount.

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > DancesWithRotors - Driving Insightfully 01/10/2016 at 12:13

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*wiggles stick around* WAOWHAOWHAHWOAHOWHAOWHAOWAHOW

DancesWithRotors - Driving Insightfully > itranthelasttimeiparkedit 01/10/2016 at 12:15

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This one, I plucked from a 1990 Chrysler New Yorker. There were a couple of others that got it, though.

Brickman > DancesWithRotors - Driving Insightfully 01/10/2016 at 12:15

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I like that.

Clown Shoe Pilot > DancesWithRotors - Driving Insightfully 01/10/2016 at 12:16

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I like your nice antistatic work surface. All the benches I’ve ever used were hard surface, not carpeted :)

DancesWithRotors - Driving Insightfully > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 01/10/2016 at 12:16

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I wish. Part of the amplifier board is surface mount, just to screw with your head.

DrJohannVegas > DancesWithRotors - Driving Insightfully 01/10/2016 at 12:42

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Dude. I missed your messages last night, which I assume referred to this project. I would have been happy to commiserate on this sort of thing! But, looks like you rocked it. Everything looks great! I’d share this to the Soundboard, if you don’t mind.

DrJohannVegas > Brickman 01/10/2016 at 12:45

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It’s the defining feature of the Infinity II. Super neat, very late 80s. In a similar vein, I’ve always had a soft spot for the Alpine equalizers of the same era with the digital touch controls. Super neat.

My X-type is too a real Jaguar > DancesWithRotors - Driving Insightfully 01/10/2016 at 12:47

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The 1988 Dodge Caravan my father bought had one of these, what you are missing is the speakers that had their own individual amplifiers.

DancesWithRotors - Driving Insightfully > DrJohannVegas 01/10/2016 at 12:52

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Go right ahead.

DancesWithRotors - Driving Insightfully > My X-type is too a real Jaguar 01/10/2016 at 12:54

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Don’t worry, I also plucked those from the New Yorker I got the radio from. The whole setup is going into my Dynasty. :D

My X-type is too a real Jaguar > DancesWithRotors - Driving Insightfully 01/10/2016 at 12:59

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Awesome, that was one fine sounding stereo it really was. Oh and in the late 80s my friend’s father had a Dynasty and we always made fun of him for being a Soap Opera fan

RacinBob > DancesWithRotors - Driving Insightfully 01/10/2016 at 16:20

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FYI, I am reasonably sure that the boards were wave machine soldered, not hand soldered. I can’t imagine those boards being hand soldered....

Ps, congrat’s on taking the initiative to fixing it. Myself, I’m a master of the cold solder joint.

DancesWithRotors - Driving Insightfully > RacinBob 01/10/2016 at 18:34

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Aye, they were wave machine soldered from the factory. Mine is now about 95% hand soldered, because I didn’t want to repeat this ever again. It’s a pretty terrible job, and takes several hours of cursing.

RacinBob > DancesWithRotors - Driving Insightfully 01/10/2016 at 18:51

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I can’t imagine the result had I tried such a thing, gnarly comes to mind.....