channelmanic on galaga boards

[beerbarrel]

Really depends on who is mucking around with it. Seeing as how I used to do this for a living in the Air Force I think that I can assure you that my soldering skills are second to none. But, that is just my opinion.

I dont think people realise how much more painful it is to fix a board that someone has been mucking around with. Usually the original fault is still there but is buried beneath a load of other issues, bad soldering, track damage, zapped chips and burnt flux. Give me an untouched board any day of the week.

Just this morning I got a PM from a guy who, in his own words, has "ripped out the chips that I found were faulty" in one of my repair logs, and he wanted to send it to me to fix it properly. Am not interested in even looking at it as a result, he probably does mean ripped too.

Thats the down side of putting up repair logs I guess, people assume that their fault is the same as the fault on the repairlog board and are inclined to have a go when they really should leave well alone.

 

[kb0jjn]

I dont think people realise how much more painful it is to fix a board that someone has been mucking around with. Usually the original fault is still there but is buried beneath a load of other issues, bad soldering, track damage, zapped chips and burnt flux. Give me an untouched board any day of the week.

Just this morning I got a PM from a guy who, in his own words, has "ripped out the chips that I found were faulty" in one of my repair logs, and he wanted to send it to me to fix it properly. Am not interested in even looking at it as a result, he probably does mean ripped too.

Thats the down side of putting up repair logs I guess, people assume that their fault is the same as the fault on the repairlog board and are inclined to have a go when they really should leave well alone.

As I read this, I had visions of traces hanging from the chips. Broken chips still attached to the pcb and screwdriver gouges under chip sockets.