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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shimoda" data-source="post: 72800" data-attributes="member: 2238">Get a soldering station.  I bought an Aoyue something for about $60 on amazon and also got some extra tips for it.  It's less than a similar Hakko station but man was it worth the purchase!  There are plenty of kits out there to give you practice, but another way to practice is just to buy some really cheap IC sockets (to practice on that pitch/size) and a bag of resistors.  For a few buck on ebay (or order from tayda electronics and get a strip board or two) you can get all the practice you need to get to making clean solders.  What the above posters have said, pinballlife is a good resource as are many others.  I'd love to have a Firepower, challenging multiball, old-school, so excellent find there!  Either from pinball life or pbresource (Steve Young).  Email pbresource and they'll help put together what you need as well.  They know what stuff (switches if there are extras on the flipper stack) you'll need and you'll want to replace those as well.  I had that with the Bally Space Invaders I just shopped.  The switch stacks on the lower and upper flippers had extra switches that aren't typically included (not the EOS ones).  You'll want to make absolutely sure your EOS switches are set correctly before using your flipper when you rebuild or you'll melt your coils!  I recommend getting the switch adjustment tool from pbresource as well.  5 bucks well spent!</blockquote>

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