Great disclaimer on discharging caps! The first time I ever opened one was during my teen years, and I got a gnarly shock! safe to say it was the best teaching moment as I always make sure everything is discharged before going in.
I like to use two irons to remove smd caps, use em like chopsticks and heat both pads then lift the cap, i dont like stressing the board, you can get a tip that is literally a plier too, which is great.
For the 220 area I think if you would have attacked using a cross pattern of X method, it would have been a little easier since you have more room to work with until you've reach the last one. Also, some extra tacky flux would have done you justice since the activity helps adhere it together but great video nonetheless 👍
Watching you work makes me realise just how garbage ASUS Authorised Repair Centers really are. I'm expecting to get my laptop back tomorrow from its second RMA and I get the feeling that the problems I mentioned have not been fixed. The first time I sent it in for repair not only did they do a piss poor job of reapplying the liquid metal on the CPU, they didn't even replace the dry and crusty thermal compound on the GPU, VRAM and MOSFETs, AND they didn't reconnect one of the CPU fans. Honestly how the hell does a professional repair centre fuck up something that simple? I swear, this time everything better be done and done properly or I'm suing the bastards. God damn I hate ASUS. They went from the best to the worst.
I just recapped my gh-013 board. Everything I saw though said I needed to use lead free solder. I recently recapped my n64, Ps1, Saturn and OG Xbox. This was my first time working with lead free solder and the Ps2 was by far the most challenging. So many tiny components so tightly packed, but I managed to come out of it with the console still working.
Great disclaimer on discharging caps! The first time I ever opened one was during my teen years, and I got a gnarly shock! safe to say it was the best teaching moment as I always make sure everything is discharged before going in.
Good work did one recently, I found using solder paste with a soldering iron speeds the awkward spots up a fair bit
Beautiful console, amazing work
I like to use two irons to remove smd caps, use em like chopsticks and heat both pads then lift the cap, i dont like stressing the board, you can get a tip that is literally a plier too, which is great.
Excellent!
For the 220 area I think if you would have attacked using a cross pattern of X method, it would have been a little easier since you have more room to work with until you've reach the last one. Also, some extra tacky flux would have done you justice since the activity helps adhere it together but great video nonetheless 👍
Any Brits who try to correct you on your pronunciation of solder should Google "Soldering On: On ‘Americanisms’ and Pronunciation"
Watching you work makes me realise just how garbage ASUS Authorised Repair Centers really are. I'm expecting to get my laptop back tomorrow from its second RMA and I get the feeling that the problems I mentioned have not been fixed. The first time I sent it in for repair not only did they do a piss poor job of reapplying the liquid metal on the CPU, they didn't even replace the dry and crusty thermal compound on the GPU, VRAM and MOSFETs, AND they didn't reconnect one of the CPU fans. Honestly how the hell does a professional repair centre fuck up something that simple?
I swear, this time everything better be done and done properly or I'm suing the bastards.
God damn I hate ASUS. They went from the best to the worst.
I just recapped my gh-013 board. Everything I saw though said I needed to use lead free solder.
I recently recapped my n64, Ps1, Saturn and OG Xbox. This was my first time working with lead free solder and the Ps2 was by far the most challenging. So many tiny components so tightly packed, but I managed to come out of it with the console still working.