What you’ll learn: The basic metallurgy of solder. How to make a solder joint. How to repair a circuit board. The vintageTEK museum is a geek’s paradise to tour if visiting the Portland ...

Soldering a busted circuit board with a few bad capacitors is typically a lot cheaper than buying a whole new machine, or even a totally new part, if you can even find one.

It’s not uncommon in cheaper devices to find a ribbon cable soldered directly to the circuit board like the one pictured above. Using a connector would have been a much more resilient approac… ...