18 Dec
2009
18 Dec
'09
9:17 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
Heh! That's beautiful. In a late-night, long-hours, weekend work
situation I did that once on one pin of a 386EX using a Dremel tool to
carefully grind my way down to the metal. As I finished and handed the
board back to the EE in our group to solder on a wire, he looked at it
and rather quickly asked "Do you suppose we've voided the warranty on
that chip?" ;) The EE kept it hanging on the wall in his office for
quite a while.
Later,
Charlie C.
On Tuesday 15
December 2009, Tony Duell wrote:
The point is that you don't need to, you can just
pitch it and grab
another from a discarded PC in a local bin. ;)
You might, but you darn well know I don't. Heck, I repaired a
_transistor_ [1] the other day. And didn't we have athread on repairing
light bulbs the other week?
[1] No, I don;'t mean a transistorised radio (which was called a
'transistor' by some people over hear yeras ago). I mean a transsitor, a
single component. It was a 2SB705 (no, don't pretend you've heard of it),
the (PNP) pass transistor in the 24V suppy in am Epson printer. It's
bolted to a heatsing in said printer and connected to the logic board by
a 3-wire cable and cocket. Anmyway, due ot carelessness (mine ;-(), all 3
pins of the transistor fell off. I couldn't find a source of a
replacement, so I cafefuilly filed away the edge of the package to expose
the remains of the pins and soldered them back on. Amazingly it worked.
-tony
It also
has a bog-standard IDE DVD transport, unlike less expensive
For which you don't
get service data, presumably.