Introduction to Microsoldering with Jessa Jones

It’s time to heat up those soldering irons! Jessa Jones, the microsoldering mom, is in the studio today to give us the low down on all the tools she uses. Then, she demonstrates how to replace the digitizer connector for an iPhone 5S.

Check out Jessa’s YouTube Channel for more Microsoldering videos
Or Visit her site at

Subscribe to our channel for all our latest teardown and repair videos!

[websurfer]

We hear a lot from the media that businesses can not find skilled labor for whatever is the latest hot job in the market place. Many of these companies refuse to retrain their current staff and instead outsource the work to contractors or move the work off shore. What Jessa Jones, Louis Rossmann and other independent business people are doing is providing the necessary training. I thank them from the bottom of my heart.

[mikeklaene]

As a guy who learned how to solder in the late 50's on tube based devices, these new, tiny devices are really hard. I guess that my 68 year old eyes do not help much. I miss the days of using my 250 watt Weller gun and multi-core flux solder. I do not miss the multi-pound power transformers and the 350 volt B+ lines.

[Fredd]

Absolutely love this series. The level of detail with which Jessa tries to explain stuff in layman's terms is amazing. I'm really looking forward to more tutorials!

[ScrubsIsee]

Even me after 20 yrs of soldering could learn sth. new here. love the way you explain everything completely clear. a real master at work. like your passion also. great vid, thanks ifixit for producing and sharing these. greetings from Germany

[KingPickleBk]

I actually sent her an iphone several years back a customer of mine mangled while trying to pry out the battery of an iphone. She did an awesome job! Good video

[bungabungabunga]

Absolutely love it. Jessa Jones is the reason I come to youtube ! Thanks for sharing knowledge and experience.

[martinnash]

In a way its good that the pad came off as Jessa was able to show how to remedy the situation. I'm sure that those of us that are in the electronics industry have had more than our fair share of this happening. I know that I have. Sometimes its the result of a previous operation such as wave soldering that was maybe a tad too hot which had loosened the adhesive holding the copper down. Maybe not so common nowadays with smd assembly techniques.

[JaidenAlemni]

I'm so glad iFixit did this. I found iPad rehab a while back and I was extremely curious about the process. Knowing it was as intensive as this, it's great to see a nice in-depth coverage!

[pertileluca]

This series is amazing, please don't stop it!

[starmon]

I like Jessa, she is a GOOD teacher !!

[ExpertScientist]

Loved this! So interesting to see, and she's very good at explaining it all.

[MattMaggioChannel]

Who watched the entire video ? I did it was amazing!

[philmorton]

Jessa is awesome, I see why Louis rossmann is always mentioning her techniques, if Apple really cared they'd let her and Louis do their repairs in peace and maybe even employ them to diagnose their upcoming technology for potential issues!

[xiphy]

Interesting video. Cool to see a woman interested and being a master in doing this stuff.

[demosal]

love your work Jessa. your the best in my book.

[wfjhDUI]

I idly googled "micro soldering" to see if this sort of thing was even done and didn't expect to find anything. This was absolutely amazing!

[mxfilip]

I really enjoyed this video. I've been soldering for 20 years as an amateur. Never micro though. I learned more here than in classes. Great video except for the joker up there talking over the expert and rushing her along. He really made me uncomfortable.

[liamhyland]

Thank you Jessa, amazing, and engaging. The importance of repairing is to push-back against a 'throw-away' mentality. Your skill and sharing it with us is appreciated. I wish to see more of the techniques and the skill demonstrated. Thank you from Liam in Sherwood Park, Alberta.

[bennybroll]

As some others have asked - can we get a list of equipment used in this video and the series?? Thanks

[timramich]

I'm glad that repair is making a resurgence. About 10 years ago I had some sort of electronic piece (I can't remember what it was), and no one was willing to fix it. It wasn't economics, it's just that it was during a period where absolutely no one repaired electronics unless they were a dealer for a manufacture. For instance, a few years before that I had a Pioneer AVR repaired by an actual authorized dealer. I had to drive almost an hour.