Providing you put the tip to the sponge fairly often and keep it nicely tinned, I think the 0.12s last a fairly long time... (well, that's what I find anyway)... :)

I use a .031" tip, what that equals in mm I have no idea.

Fairly small, lol :)...

This small... 0.7874mm

Wow Sped thats a bloody welding rod m8 ;)

Hey LUFC fan, did I mention I have tickets for England v Northern Ireland at Old Trafford next month :D :D :D :D :D

oooh. Gimme :)

I'm not gonna brag about having tickets right behind the dugout m8......... but I do promise to send you a picture message :p

Hey, I'm good at getting large things into tight places ;)

Oh by the way .031 equals 1/32 ...thats like half a 1/16 not that big :p

lol.. cheeky monkey..

I figured you would be the first to pick up on that.

I agree with most of the user, the installation pictures can be deceiving, I remember when I receive the chip on mail.. can't believe how small it is, and by the time I opened the PS2, the legs on the chips are very tiny :) there's not much space for mistakes....

just be carefull :) or you're going to break your PS2 ;)

I just use an old 25W soldering iron, I know it's probably a tad hot for doing modchip installs, but I've never had a problem. I've done original Playstations, Dreamcasts, heaps of Xboxes, a couple PS2's and a couple of Neogeo AES's. :D

The tip I use is just an old tip that I stuck on the grinder to make a very fine point in order to do the PS2's.

I'll have to get a new iron one of these days ;)

But yeah, take your time with your PS2, it's not as easy as it looks, especially for novices.