[Return of the bling!]

speaking of desoldering gun's I am going to eventually pick up a S-993A which is a china hakko look alike for about half the price, one of my buddies has one and its decent enough considering its not going to be used on every project

[Return of the bling!]

the chrome switches are IMO better as they dont get eaten up and are 100x easier to polish than the aluminum ones, its just hard to find them (given the odd's)

 

I also find them on promo 4 switch atari units (that is where those came from, but it had 2 broken off and long gone switches heh) , but that does not mean they were not refurb's that got hot stamped at random

[Project 65XE: Chip Removal]

I said 80 its more like 140 (40*3 + 20) durh

[Project 65XE: A good scrubdown, retrobrite on the cheap, change power LED lens]

just to clarify, once I got the profile correct I cut it off pretty short and solvent welded it into place