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Saw someone desoldering a capacitor backwards today in a shop
I was at a repair shop in Portland yesterday picking up parts and this guy was pulling a cap off a board but he had his iron on the wrong side. He was heating the plastic base instead of the solder joint, took him like 5 minutes and he burnt the board. Why would you not check the bottom of the board first before prying? Has anyone else seen this mistake happen with new guys?
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the_piper25d ago
My buddy Kyle did this on his first motherboard repair. He spent 20 minutes with a heat gun trying to melt the plastic housing off a capacitor that was near a CPU socket. The whole time the solder joint was 2 inches to the left on the back of the board. I walked over and just flipped his board over and tapped the joint with my iron and it fell right out. He still has that board on his wall as a learning trophy with the melted footprint.
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