Re: Just Joined!

On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:30:19 -0700 (PDT), Mike
<michael.jmitchell5@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hey everyone!

What would you do if everyone responded?

Just joined and wanted to let everyone know. I'm looking forward to
hearing different ways to fix electronics. Have had some bad luck
lately-with the xbox 360, my p2 and some cell phones!!

Join? One does not join a Usenet newsgroup. Perhaps "enlist" might
be a better term.

Well, there are many ways to fix electonics. My motto is "Learn By
Destroying". I've even registered the domain name. Basically, one
doesn't really understand how something works until after they've
destroyed it, and frantically attempted to repair it before the
spouse, customer, or owner finds out. Any method of destruction is
acceptable as real learning ocurrs only after the destruction.

Blaming bad luck on lack of repair success would be acceptable is the
repair industry operated like Las Vegas. This is not the case, so
luck only plays a small part. Undertanding, dilligence,
documentation, and knowing someone with a clue and a large parts
collection is far more important than luck.

The xbox 360 and some computah motherboards have problems with lousy
BGA soldering. There are several videos on YouTube showing how to
reflow the CPU. I use a hot air soldering iron and hot plate as shown
here:
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndeq6cAA8MY>
I also use an infra-red optical thermometer to monitor temperature.
There are other videos showing using a bottle cap with burning cotton
and alcohol. It works, but with with a very low batting average.

I guess the P2 is a PS2 or Playstation 2. (11th commandment.... Thou
shalt not abrev). There's plenty on the web on how to fix most
anything. For example:
<http://www.ps2repair.com/PS2.htm>
Use Google find more.

Cell phones are something I fix in my non-existent spare time. They're
usually quite easy, especially when most of the damage is mechanical.
If it moves, it breaks. However, the average life of a cell phone is
18 months and the cost of commodity cell phones is so low, that it's
often not worth fixing.
<http://802.11junk.com/jeffl/pics/office/slides/radio-mess.html>

Hopefully, I've given you enough clues so that you can destroy
electronics in a deliberate and organized manner. That should teach
you enough so that you're able to avoid old mistakes on the next
repair.

.

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