Reddit reviews MG Chemicals 841AR-P Nickel Conductive Pen, 7.5g
We found 8 Reddit comments about MG Chemicals 841AR-P Nickel Conductive Pen, 7.5g. Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.
Creates durable, reliable, highly conductive connectionsLow volume resistivity: 0.0068 ohms·cmTypical trace width: 1.0 mmDries to touch in minutesAdheres to plastics, epoxy, copper, aluminum, ceramics, wood, and most electronic substrates as well as ABS, PLA, and other 3D printing plastics
Or a conductive ink pen for those who don't solder.
There is always conductive pen
Works great for the most novice modder. Since a tsop is such a small bridge I'd go this route to make sure you don't mess up a good board.
About $12 actually.
I've been fixing this issue for ages on Wonderswans. The underside of the button is just a black conductive carbon pad. These tend to get dirty and wear out over time, but can be easily fixed by using a Nickel Conductive Pen to re-coat the pad in a new conductive layer. It's a super quick and cheap fix and and as long as you let the layer dry properly before playing, will last for many years.
90% of my soldering experience is larger things, simple wires, such like that. I don't even have soldering equipment anywhere close to small enough to try to do a modchip.
If you've got an older version (anything before 1.6 I believe) you can do the TSOP flash mod.
I bought this: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LYAA814/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 and used it to bridge the pins needed to TSOP flash. It's basically like one of those old white-out pens and was pretty easy to use. The only other thing I needed was a Xbox port to USB cable so I could connect a flash drive. You need a smaller flash drive (there's a compatibility list linked) but I have so many old flash drives I found one that would work.
I've never modded a console before and now after a little adventure later I have my Xbox set up with a larger hard drive that I can install games to, a much nicer dashboard, and it's a lot more future-proof.
I've already got a list of about 40 games that I want to play once I find all of them and it will be a growing list. I've found a lot of the games feel very modern in how they control and that's a huge plus the Xbox offers I think. I can't get into much other "retro" console gaming because I hate the controls. Although, most of those retro consoles will emulate on the Xbox anyway.
This one does look pretty thick. There are many others out there that are thinner, though. Here's one on Amazon, or just shop around for "conductive ink pen". Copper foil tape would work pretty good, too.
I have a Pebble Time and the copper terminals on the watch started to corrode. It got to the point where I had to fiddle with the charging cord for a few minutes before it would start charging. So, I put some conductive ink on them and it starts charging everytime now. This is the pen I bought: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LYAA814/ref=olp_product_details?_encoding=UTF8&me=
There is a conductive paint to re-form lines on circuit boards, if you're trying to paint lines onto that button (not sure what the exact problem is). Or, you could solder any mechanical pushbutton that fits to the board to repair it.