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>>2842702
>Why did you use hot glue? I can tell you're not confident in your soldering.
>I can tell you're not confident in your soldering.

I've added headphone jacks to GBA SP's using surface mount. I am quite confident, thank you very much.

You're wrong.
If I weren't confident in my soldering I'd have smeared glue all over the actual genesis PCB like Drakon. I did this >>2842491 .

No, I used hot glue for two reasons:
1) Most importantly, these are not panel mount RCA jacks. They are harvested from an AV receiver. They do not have tethers or any other way to secure to the shell of the console. Pic related. Hot glue fastens it to the case. The little IC next to the RCA jacks would be floating and could certainly short to the RF shield if left unchecked. the hot glue holds it in place. The wires all had to stay together to avoid spreading out and covering up the cartridge slot when closing up the console, so I put some hot glue on the wires there.

2) The shielding on the genesis gets very close to the case and I was not sure if I could put it all back together without shorting the top shielding to the RCA jacks. The hot glue also acted as a buffer zone in case that were to occur. See pic. It's very little clearance.

Stop making assumptions that I don't know what I'm doing, just because one asshole jizzes all over his PCB's when he does mods.