My Xbox 360 Build Thread - Help needed!

aj23 · Post by **aj23** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 7:17 pm

Alright well I bought my second brand new xbox 360 yesterday to make into an xbox 360 laptop. I easily disassembled the thing today, but for some reason, I can't get the desoldering down. At first I made many attempts and noticed nothing happened, then found out there was something wrong with my iron tip (brand new iron bought from ebay too....). I then used an older iron, that was 35w, this one worked for sure as it was melthing solder wire easily, but while trying to desolder the front USB ports, I could not get the solder off. A very small amount came off. Anyone know why or have any tips at all for this?

I'll get some pics of it up, once I actually make some progress.

grossaffe · Post by **grossaffe** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 12:50 am

do you have a desoldering iron?

aj23 · Post by **aj23** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 10:14 am

grossaffe wrote:do you have a desoldering iron?

No, I was told to use a 30w soldering iron along with braid or a pump, but if that is not what I should be doing, what do you recommend?

BTW, I have a solder sucker pump and a desoldering braid.

mmoshkowich · Post by **mmoshkowich** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 11:05 am

this is a lot easier
<a href="http://www.radioshack.com/product/index ... 062731">45 Watt Desoldering Iron</a>[/url]

aj23 · Post by **aj23** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 12:36 pm

If I lived in the US, I could get that. But we no longer have radioshack in canada, they have changed it to the source, which I don't believe has that product.

mmoshkowich · Post by **mmoshkowich** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 1:12 pm

Here's one from The Source.CA <a href="http://www.thesource.ca/estore/Product. ... esoldering Iron</a>[/url]

aj23 · Post by **aj23** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 1:28 pm

Thank you very much! Out of about 10+ stores, only one had it and it's about 15km from here, but I'll get someone to take me there. Have you used it before on an xbox 360 motherboard? I don't want to get it and find out it doesn't work good.

mmoshkowich · Post by **mmoshkowich** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 1:40 pm

no not on an xbox 360 and not this brand but I have used the 45 watt desoldering Iron from radioshack on my SNES mini project it its great.

aj23 · Post by **aj23** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 1:56 pm

Alright, so hopefully this should work the same. I don't want to use it and then find out it damages my board, so I'll make sure to test it out on something else first. It's probably very similar to yours from radioshack anyways.

aj23 · Post by **aj23** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 5:55 pm

I got the iron from the source and it's pretty good. I'm still a noob at soldering/desoldering (this was my first time ever), so I'm not good at it yet. To use the iron, you hold down the bulb, put the iron down, and then let the bulb go to pull up the solder?

Aguiluz · Post by **Aguiluz** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 11:34 am

Do you have any electronics experience at all?

Just asking, this is no easy task.

aj23 · Post by **aj23** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 12:26 pm

It depends what type of electronics experience you are talking about. I have quite a bit of knowledge with computers, but this is something different. I am a quick learner though, and I am hoping to go through this project and know just as much about the xbox 360 internals as I do about computers.

xmarcusphenixx · Post by **xmarcusphenixx** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 3:21 pm

I'm building one myself as we speak and I'm a newb but quick learner. I would recomend just leaving the ports on the board and extending wires from that. Like the ring of like plug, i just extended it with ribbon cable from one end of the connector to the other. works fine. Though it may now be as nice as ben hecks, it makes it easier for your first project, then when you make another improve.

xmarcusphenixx · Post by **xmarcusphenixx** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 3:22 pm

ring of light *

aj23 · Post by **aj23** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 8:26 pm

How do you guys desolder the last little bit left when you're taking things off the motherboard? I'm stuck with the hard drive connector, there are little bits of solder which I cannot get off, and it's one thing that I cannot pry off or apply force to, or else I will damage it.

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