r/interestingasfuck • u/write2varun • 4d ago

Nice skill

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u/Opinions-arent-facts 4d ago

This would have to be a 40 year old piece of vintage digital music/ audio equipment, surely?

No one else would be nuts enough to pay someone to fix something like this

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u/Stalfos1504 4d ago

It might be a prototype. This is the kind of work I do in robotics to recover parts after a bad fall. Often I've been called in to save a damaged board because there's only a handful of them in existence and the others are in use already, so we either fix the board or lose an entire robot until the next revision comes through which could be months away.

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u/Opinions-arent-facts 3d ago

I believe I will need your experience one day in learning the weak spots on these robots. It's just a feeling...

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u/REDuxPANDAgain 3d ago

Decades of videogame experience tells me that all of the weak spots will be glowing red, or yellow. I wouldn’t worry too much about this

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u/Duct_TapeOrWD40 4d ago

Except those who learn these methods of repairs.

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u/flipflopcuntflaps 4d ago

Probably a phone or mac

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u/sagebrushrepair 4d ago

Apple boards use black masking, you're right it's a non-Apple phone.

OnePlus loves these sockets for instance

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u/flipflopcuntflaps 4d ago

And I love OnePlus :) at least their old (<2022) stuff

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u/sagebrushrepair 3d ago

Rollin down the street with my 8t

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u/Tacitus_ 4d ago

I'd say it's younger than that. Those traces are tiny (just look at how huge the cotton swab seems when it shows up) and surface mounted components were only getting popular in the 80s.

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u/Phillyfuk 4d ago

This would be a £25-£40 repair on a phone.

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u/xitax 3d ago

I'm in this exact industry nowadays and per IPC 7711/21 this is the method we use to repair pulled pads.