iphone repair Tools & phone repair practical skills - VIP Pro Shop Team

When selecting tools and equipment for repairing mobile cell phones, it is important to select the best tools. Cheap or inexpensive tools and equipment may not be handy when repairing a mobile phone. On the other hand, best quality little expensive tools and equipment will help you to repair a mobile phone easily and comfortable. I am personally trained in mobile cell phone repairing and my personal experience says that we must always select and buy the best tools available in the market or online. These good quality tools may cost a little more but in the long term you will be happy that you bought the best tools. Now, VIP Pro Shop Team will show you what's best.

1. Soldering Station

There are 2 names for this tool - solder station and solder iron. It has the option of controlling temperature according to the heat requirement for welding work. It's more convenient for choosing handheld solder iron. It makes welding work faster and easier. But high temperature solder tip may also damage small components of your iPhone. Better to choose a ESD model to fix your cell phone motherboard, it's more safe to use.

2. Teardown Toolkit

No matter what problems you need to fix on you iPhone, teardown is an essential step. Choose right iphone repair toolkit for disassembly of iPhone will save both of your time and efficiency. Generally a complete set of disassembly tool include: precision screwdriver set, suction cup, pryer and other similar opening tools. The materials and performance of these teardown toolkit are different with each other, for instance plastic or stainless steel, magnetic or magnetic free... Buy a complete opening toolkit is always a good solution to make your order plan easier.

3. PCB Holder / PCB Stand

 A PCB (Printed Circuit Board) holder or PCB PCB Holder stand is used to old the PCB of a mobile phone while soldering or repairing. It holds the PCB very strongly and doesn’t allows it to move thus helping in repairing. Again, it is important and wise to select a good quality PCB holder rather than a cheaper and inexpensive one.

4. Solder Wire

Solder wire is used to solder electronic components, ICs Solder Wire or jumper. Composition of most solder wire is Tin / Lead in the ratio 60:40 or 63:37. Since the introduction of RoHS (Restriction of Hazardous Substances) from electronics, more and more companies are using lead-free solder. Lead-free solder wire is available in many compositions but the most common composition is Tin / Silver / Copper in the Ratio 96.5:3.0:0.5. Solder wire is available in different diameters such 2.0mm, 1.5mm, 1.0mm, 0.5mm, 0.2mm etc. For mobile phone repairing 0.5mm solder wire is best suitable. Kester is a world renowned manufacturer and supplier of solder wire and other soldering material.

5. Jumper Wire

This is a thin laminated or coated copper jumper wire used to jumper from one point to another on the track of a mobile phone while repairing. Most people doing the work of mobile repairing do jumper to solve many problems.

6. BGA Kit

Used to Reball and repair ball-type ICs. BGA stands for Ball Grid Array.

7.Multimeter

Used to find faults, check track and components. Always buy a good quality reliable ESD-Safe digital Multimeter for mobile repairing works.

8. Testing Tool

Most of the fault cannot be directly judged by iPhone surface, so you need to use testing tools to detect suspicious parts to obtain some information to judge the good or bad. The multimeter and oscilloscope are the most common and important tools for cell phone repair.  Multimeter can be used to check the resistance, voltage and current of you iPhone while an oscilloscope can display the waveform with various signals to judge the fault point and the range of the fault. 

Sure! there are much more tools to fix iPhone like microscope, flashing cable, NAND and IC programmer, hot air gun etc. You need to get enough mobile phone repair knowledge and experience for doing relative repairs.  It is recommended that you browse through online website for more detailed information.  You can carefully compare the cost of the same product to check if there are lots of cheap goods to buy in large quantities.

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