okay so you know how um you know how a
lot of a lot of bad reviews say like I
just needed this and they said that I
needed this other stuff and they didn't
agree to their original quote kind of
thing so you know there's always the
customer side and the uh and the service
center side of things and this one
actually was no conflict there wasn't
conflict here but I just want to give
you an idea of where some of this
conflict comes from by showing you a
board that got sent in for keyboard
replacement that thought there was
nothing but keyboard replacement needed
and it's one of those things where it's
like you know do you want your keyboard
replac because you spilled something on
it
no yes yes yes what the okay so what's
this this this is the cool part about
having a microscope camera is because
like there there's really no need to
argue there's really no need to go back
and forth I just okay so this is your
machine right yes so this is your serial
number right yes so this is your
motherboard
no oh oh yes it is cuz
um it yeah so needless to
say this this needs more than than a
keyboard and we're going to go through
that today so I'm again a lot of people
go how do you test if the component is
bad that's another very very popular
question and my my popular answer as of
recently is is with with my eyeballs so
I'm not taking out a multimeter and
measure any of this so that stuff is
just go go gone you know one of the
things I always say if you do this as a
business you don't want to say okay in
the schematic what is that okay that's a
75 Ohm resistor let me look up a 75 Ohm
resistor let me buy a 75 Ohm resistor
okay that's done okay what's that oh
that's a 22 U micro FR cab let me just
buy 20 no no no you want to have a board
that has all that stuff on it already
and just go dink dink dink you don't
want to spend all day ordering this
stuff because it really is a complete
[ __ ] waste of time so what I'm going
to do right now is I'm just literally
turn the air filter on and I'm going to
knock all of that stuff off the board
I'm going to just you know get rid of
all of it because it's all a waste it's
all disgusting I'm really not going to
bother figuring out which of these 17
Cent components I can
save it's just it just all goes in the
trash
bye
goodbye
s get the [ __ ]
out get the [ __ ]
out
GTFO [ __ ]
you [ __ ]
you
goodbye
canr
GTFO oh big
GTFO and you too what the
hell you're gone and LCD connector I
have no plans of attempting to reuse any
of that
stuff that's the thing like you got
these places that offer a one-year
warranty but they don't actually watch
for that on board repairs I offer a
three-month warranty because a lot of
the stuff that we get for lack of a
better way to say it is just really
really [ __ ] up
but I'm not leaving that [ __ ] on there
that's the thing like I'm going through
this with an eye to uh I'm going through
this with with the just the general type
of thinking where I don't ever want to
see you
again unless you
know you're here to bring me some
organic ve vegetable
juicer something fun like I'm going
through this with the idea that when you
when you
leave this this just has to work and
never come back so I'm going through it
with the
idea of fixing all these little things
up
front we're going to get rid of all the
junk on the
pads oh and that capacitor by the way
that's got to go get out of here
GTFO I'm not testing you to see if
you're good my eyes tested you and my
eyes said that you're bad
I don't even care if you're good you
look like that you have no place on my
motherboard so on some points I am
scraping the board a little bit because
I want those pads to not have [ __ ] on
them
anymore also doing that with a big
solder ball that has some flux inside of
it same thing is true over
here we just scrape and we scrape and we
scrape all
right I didn't spill something on
it was it water well I think that was it
oh but you didn't spill anything on it
see that actually a great example I may
or may not wind up not editing that part
out of the video so that you could hear
that phone
call I didn't spill anything on it oh
but water that's probably
it I don't understand people I
don't oh that wishful
thinking that silly wishful
thinking
yeah so we we have some jumpers to run
from some corroded [ __ ] don't
we okay that will come on shortly we
will run jumpers to the corroded little
thingies
shortly let's just start replacing
everything let's just get
the
all
right now what do you think is smarter
should I solder an LCD connector on and
then use hot air to put all these little
small components on or put all the small
components on with the hot air and then
put the LCD
connector
survey says LCD connector after using
hot
air
oh and there's the pads for the
backlight fuse are
gone as is the backlight fuse but that
should not have been a surprise can't
believe I missed
that can't believe this actually got
sent in for a keyboard see this by the
way this here this here this is proof
that this never actually worked there is
no there is no well maybe it worked but
the corrosion destroyed it later in the
mail no this here is where the backl
fuse for the backlight of the screen go
the pads are not there the fuse is not
there and it's burned this never worked
this is not a keyboard replacement no no
no again I'm not not saying this to be
combative or mean but again you're going
to read a lot of reviews of a lot of
different businesses
honestly it's it's rare that it happen
it's rare that it actually gets to the
review state here it is rare because
just because I have somebody hired here
who's sole job is to spend time with
people and because here's the thing you
can explain it let's say you're a tech
you you you're spending your time doing
this stuff right you're spending your
time replacing stuff this is where you
need to spend your time it's not really
on talking to people talking to people
separates you from being able to do this
you kind of rush through it if you try
to explain in 30 seconds what's going on
they're going to hate you if you spend
15 minutes you can explain the exact
same thing where they may not be happy
but they're actually going to like you
or they're going to believe you and you
need to have that time so I have
somebody here who really who does that
this his job is to spend time with
people to explain these miserable
annoying situations like oh you paid for
this but you really need this oh yeah
you're saying it worked before but
again the components that you claim
worked are actually missing and burned
and blah you know this is the thing it's
like I don't want you to think it's
about being combative but I'm just
showing you it as an example because
again you know a consu there's the
consumer side and then there's the tech
side and the tech side of it is you know
you said you needed this and you said it
worked before but how how tell me
electricity cannot conduct across this
like
that's and I really hate using this as
an example because this person was not
at all combative but you have a lot of
people that are really combative about
this stuff and again you know it just
gives uh whether it's a mechanic or
whether it's you know any type of repair
person it's just kind of a bad
reputation
because because of it and I just want to
give you the other side of it which is
this you
know again because there are a lot of
places out there that are dumb or that
will screw you or that will you know
steal stuff or upsell for no reason but
then there's just the really the like
like you your board is missing pieces of
it that need to
work that's just
science and the hot air station turned
off again [ __ ]
hacko 650 bucks on this thing plus
tips that's a brand new heating element
I know because you know you don't you
want to believe me this is my old
heating
element not an eBay heating element I
bought not cheap [ __ ] thing came from
all spec with next day
shipping be better off with a damn
lighter and compressed
air
m
I'll straighten that out later because
that is just sloppy sloppy
[ __ ] I don't want to touch it up as I go
along I like to kind of have that as a
touch-up stage if I'm replacing a bunch
of tiny
components there'll be a touch-up stage
and a touch-up
time might as well put a little layer of
flux just to make this all easier though
all that stuff will kind of flow in a
place a little nicer that's mtech 559
flux a lot of people have been asking
what the gooey stuff is that's amtech
559 flux if you Google you'll find out
why what flux does and mainly this
solder has flux inside of it oh my God
you turned off again you [ __ ] piece
of
[ __ ] I am done endorsing hacko products
like really this
is
oh you it just this thing used to turn
off if the heat was above 6 and a half
and the air was below 10 now it turns
off if the air is below 20 and the heat
is above six like what the
hell or was anyway flux helps solder
flow so solder itself is is a material
that melts and that you know can conduct
electricity and all that good stuff but
for it to actually flow into joints
nicely there's something called flux
there is a lot of flux is there's a lot
of solder that contains flux inside of
it but as you use it when you actually
see stuff steaming that's not the solder
when you see that smoke that is the flux
and when you burn the flux away it's not
going to really uh work as well it's not
going to flow anymore so if you have a
little tube of flux like I do it can
help obviously it works better when your
hot air station puts out hot
air but there we'd be asking just a
little too much
yeah I just couldn't wait to start
touching it up could I no
discipline and so let's see what's next
so you got
the I really don't know why I'm doing a
video of just you watching me solder
this is not brain work this is not brain
work at
all like you don't have to think to just
say oh
component look nasty me replace nasty
component I like putting up videos of
thinking not this I'm also much better
at thinking than I am at the this this
is supposed to be the easy stuff but it
requires hands with good manual
dexterity which
I don't have as you can see
there so we're
gonna
[Music]
I also have to have the air so high for
this piece of [ __ ] crap to not turn
off that it blows the components
away I don't mind buying cheap stuff
that works like [ __ ] but I mind when I
pay good money and the stuff works like
[ __ ]
okay
touch up on that can happen
later
it turned off
again it's at 20 oh what you you want me
to just use you at 25 all the time so
you don't turn
off what a waste of
time that's what I got my phone here
might as well just dick with my phone
while I'm waiting for the out air
station to do do its
job ready to melt s
now
barely
for
that will that's nasty soldering we'll
fix that
later
I wish we were possible to use this at a
reasonable air
level
here's something that I probably lost
before and I don't know what you are
anymore
goodbye I turn the air down to a
reasonable level yeah the heat is at
five and a half and the [ __ ] turned
off dig around with the phone
again
e
and we
wait I guess I at least use this time to
preheat the
board wait for the hot air to come back
[Music]
on
think you're getting a
pace even if I get another hacko you
still got to worry about that whole L
turning off for no reason [ __ ] cuz even
when this thing was brand new out of the
box if the air was if you had the air
lower than 10 or 15 and the heat higher
than 6 and a half or seven it would turn
itself off I just want something that's
just like when I want it to be hot just
like stay hot long enough for me to do
my [ __ ] job and then when I turn you
off then you can be cold you have
seriously like well I'm not here at
night you have all night to be cold you
have all night to be cold you don't need
me uh you know you you don't you don't
need to be cold in the middle of a
soldering job middle of
work
for
holy sh it turned off at the era
25 whoa what a pile of [ __ ] this thing
has
become
for
it didn't properly clean that
pet and now not only we not properly
clean that pad I RI that
pad that's what jumper wires are
for what you going to
do that is totally what jumper wires are
for
yeah that's the magewell capture dongle
crapping out so you won't be able to see
the microscope again
soon
this video is
doomed let's see can I fix
that it tapping the
thing Mage
well don't buy cheap Chinese caption
okay we're in we're back so I did lose
some patience so I did some soldering
without you sorry you know have to get
on with the work day
can't but magewell dongle is back in
business hopefully it doesn't Flicker
and do some stupid
[Music]
[ __ ] yeah I did do some soldering off
the camera
you'll forgive me I'm
sure nothing works today dongle doesn't
work today hot air doesn't work
today just one of those
days
I know what you're thinking but that
doesn't look perfect there is a little
piece sticking off of that
component and I'm here to tell you that
that is just
fine
uh
I'm going to go through and do a little
bit of
touchup
hey remember what I said when you try to
make things perfect what happens I don't
think I'll ever
learn
yeah I don't think I'll ever learn
sometimes you know it would be really
Poetic Justice if the Hackle just turned
off on me right as I said that
this is is one of those days my solder
spool doesn't want to work
either got
tangled
[Music]
no
I
just
okay now to the backlight fuse
section now it's in my whole yeah
there's no way in hell all this needed
was a keyboard
section
[Music]
m
for
alls I need is a keyboard
repair
yep Lis how do you cut your of
length um you're looking at
it
yep Oh God damn it this piece of [ __ ]
dongle died again you [ __ ] piece of
crap Mage well and we're back in
business yes it worked
got to be careful and use this crappy
cheap [ __ ] capture
Hardware I was wondering cuz I was
running that little wire and I'm like
man that wire looks really really neat
like that wire looks a little too neat
and then I noticed there was no wire in
the
screen because the [ __ ] thing froze
so that's the thing it's not going to
tell you when it froze you just have to
be constantly monitoring the video to
ensure that the little dongle doesn't
freeze
okay so yeah so that little place where
the pad was broken I scratched
away over here and then I dis soldered
it directly to the resistor we're going
to do the same on the other side that's
already kind of
solderable
yeah that's that's fine that's
aable there's a time in every every
person's life where they believe that if
the pad comes off for the board that
it's not
fixable that's the thing like you can
laugh about that now but really there
was a time when you thought the same
thing so so shut up there was a time
when I thought that and I thought pad
comes off the board oh you need a lab to
fix that you
know on go away
short go
away shoo SHO
there we
go let's get this in a little closer I
don't want to smell this
crap doesn't matter how hard you twist
this little blue piece at the end on it
always manages to fall off of the
hose okay so your
wire
that's way too
long we can always make it shorter
later
for
oh I made a huge mess redo
redo I hate
jumpers
ah suck at
this let's get one really
tiny
see that's much better
that's oh you didn't there it's much
better when it's soldered
jackass I thought it was soldered it was
pointing the other way oh that was
[ __ ]
stupid yeah okay that's that we got a
few more to do here we're not even close
to
done
touch the resistor touch the pad and get
the solder on
there okay scrap it scrap it
scrape
let's just clean some of that flux we
don't it's about
time using an ESD safe paper
towel sparkle paper towel from
Amazon
nice ESD safety is real important to
me I just left a little get get the [ __ ]
out okay
come
on
all right that's going to be a pain in
the
ass I give I cave
that light can stay
there it's learning from the hacko and
the Mage well dongle had to be a pain in
the
ass I'll accommodate it being a pain in
the ass just
because
this is probably painful for you to
watch
so much [ __ ] is in the way all the
time oh it's
annoying I know that's a big blob but
the Big Blob is going to make it easier
for me to shorten my wire and always
make that look a little nicer
later now we run that wire to that leg
of the transistor that refuses to want
to stick
out
okay now it's obviously going to be time
to that whole thing is going to have to
get
cleaned because that's disgusting this
is definitely a candidate for the
toothbrushing and the ultra Sonic
Cleaner before this ever goes back to a
customer I am not letting something look
like that and go back to a customer no
way in hell that's the thing that people
I don't think realize with
flux stupid cough and some of that stuff
is you know you can do all that it don't
matter what matters is are you going to
give it back to somebody looking like
that and I'm sure I'm going to have
other rework to do in the fire wire Port
region but man the [ __ ] I go through so
that you can have fire wire how many
people even really use firewire really
besides audio Engineers that use rmy
interfaces besides that who uses
firewire
nobody absolutely
nobody it's firewire
is it's a cool way to get they have this
Matty interface it's pretty cool rme has
so that you can use uh 16 or 32 channels
of your own digital to analog conversion
with a laptop it's pretty cool and
firewire is definitely a you know much
sturdier Port than the USB 3 the small
USB 3 kind like the mini ones see still
working Mage well good okay where's my
Wick here Wick I just had that a minute
ago ah okay here you are get this in
close CU this is going to make a
terrible amount of
smoke
right we go in and let's
remove
there
h
really oh thank you yeah this is this is
one of those days so I'm out of the
connectors that have the two little legs
in the bottom that shove it into the
board so you know where it goes and on
top of that the connector doesn't even
want to leave the
tweezers yeah it's definitely it's one
of those [ __ ] days it's one of those
days all
right
anything on the edge of my tweezers
let's burn it
off go
hacko
boil
clean
see yeah there see these holes on the
board you can put the connector in the
holes the whole idea is that it aligns
itself if you have the right
one which I
don't so I have to align it
manually there we go it just turn the
light down too much
reflection and make sure all the pins
are where you want them to
be actually I think this does have the
pins on it this may have the pins that I
need that would be
amazing was I just complaining for
nothing
probably
okay yeah it does it's sticking
amazing you don't want to get any solder
inside the actual connector because that
will be a
nightmare you want it to be soldered to
the board you don't want to get solder
inside the
connector because then you will never
get the cable in there or even worse you
send it back if this is a board only
repair for a customer what they're going
to do is they're going to try to shove
that in
there and when they shove it in there
they're going to rip your connector
straight off of the board
no
good
be packo knows how to make some annoying
products now don't they listen to that
that's because that's necessary when you
don't have a tip plugged in it to beep
at you at 85 DB totally necessary I
don't think this would even be a usable
product if they didn't have the thing
[ __ ] beep at you the highest volume
Possible Oh man not a hacko fan
today I as well turn the hot air off see
it's on you know why it's on right now
because I don't have to use it it's like
this thing [ __ ] senses when I'm
actually doing work and just decides
that the red light to turn off and a
[ __ ] with me for no reason but it's been
sitting there for about 10 minutes
without me doing any hot air rework it
work
fine go
figure
oh no I have a bridge oh no what am I
going to do oh no it's broken I'm never
going to be able to do it oh
no what do you do oh wait
whoops see this is the magic of mtech
559 look at
that zing
zing gentlemen ladies mtech 559
flux this that's a product I can stand
behind like look at that because you
know how miserable that would have been
with with any other
flux
for
okay okay now I certainly can't say that
this is perfect I'm not going to even
try to tell you that it's perfect but
you remember what this looked like
before like I may cut this here and show
you what it looked like before for a few
seconds just so you can see I'm going to
cut to the before and the after but I
mean
this was scorched Earth before this was
like just total trash we kind of went
from Total trash to something that's
actually working and usable so you see
that that uh that's blob over there is
100% fine because this goes to both from
the same place that's the LCD
connector that's uh filter capacitors on
backlight that's a image
filter that's 9000 that's going to take
power and send it to the LCD to turn the
LCD
on that there is for firewires you can
see where we have the
now we have that little extension there
for where there's no pad this little
extension with the wire we scraped away
there for where there was no
pad that's that's not as nice as I'd
like it to be but you know what it works
and it goes over
here and you know that I had fire wire
because I showed you at booting with the
fire wire so that's
that yeah this thing looked like a
complete oh and also the the backlight
fuse can't forget that since that is the
whole it only needs a keyboard thing so
we we scraped away and we have a
backlight fuse there so yeah this it's a
pretty good
example now we took something that was
pretty scorched and burned to [ __ ] and
turned it into a fully functioning
machine okay so I messed up and this is
thing an open broadcaster when you hit
start recording it starts recording
right over the last file you did so if
it sees that there's the same file name
it doesn't uh create a new file name
with a dash and a one or something it
just overwrites the old one and guess
what happened to the footage that I did
of me testing that the machine actually
worked so as I showed you as I've said
before I don't want you um listening to
me if the work that I do doesn't work
this is not a channel where there's a
bunch of you know crappy techno music
playing and you get to watch me fix
things and then not test them at the end
I want you to see that it actually works
so here we worked on the screen
circuitry and the firewire circuitry and
i' like to show you that that actually
works and it would probably work a lot
better if I actually plug the screen in
properly needless to say uh with the
original screen cable this ain't working
so we and that's to be expected with how
bad that looks so we're going to try
with a different screen a different
screen cable and also I'm going to use a
FireWire enclosure here and I'm going to
boot up on the firewire enclosure and
just in case any of you think I'm
cheating and that the fire wire couldn't
possibly work after how screwed it got
I'm going want to unplug the internal
hard drive cable over here so you can
see it's flapping
around somebody actually commented
recently I I think you're swapping the
computers of the boards out when you
show us they work and it's like
seriously like you can't even see my
head right now that's how bad the
editing in the filmography here is is
that like and you think I have the time
to do that kind of stuff dude it's it's
h fixing boards is easy fixing boards is
no problem but editing editing like
deceptive editing that is hard and
fixing boards is easy that I have no
problem so down alt as you can see it
sees my firewire Drive obviously the
screen stuff works and I'm going to boot
into my firewire SSD firewire 800 and in
2015 it's a pretty dated protocol the
SSD is far faster than the
firewire but you'll see that it's going
to boot up into my operating system just
fine over firewire
which is pretty cool so that means that
I'm done again on the whole screen and
the screen cable
thing yeah about that whole you sending
it in and saying all you needed was a
keyboard my job is done
now now the rest of this the whole like
yeah you can plug in a burned and
corroded and destroyed screen cable into
the board and expect it to work I'll let
the sales guy have fun with that phone
call but my job here again my job screen
works this works I'm good I'm happy