MacbookAir A1466: 820-3437 Broken RTC steals my time 

Yes, there were many other little areas that needed fixing up, though none of them (obviously) were the main fault. Possibly they would have played up after the main fault if I'd found the via issue originally. Either way, it was a lot of running around.

Yes, certainly was; I'll know for next time (and 3437 / 00165 boards are notorious for RTC/BIOS area faults)

Some days it feels like the abyss consumes us.

ja, it was certainly pertaining to the whole RTC module at least.

All separate machines, just happen to be having a run of A1466's at the moment.

Too much solder on which bit? If it sounded like veer, that'd be because I was being verbally lazy and not saying it as "via" :D

I would say it'll require just more practice but can imagine it's entirely possible. The most difficult aspect would potentially being trying to learn the depth of field limits. Fortunately the microscope has a very shallow DOF in most cases so you'll be alerted to the relative distances in terms of focus.

Thanks for the insight (pun unintentional haha). I ordered a digital (hdmi) microscope because I figured that a stereoscopic one would be useless to me because of my vision problems. Will try it out and see, since I see some other YT'ers doing microsolderiing with digital scopes...

You may find an optical still is a winner, because there's no latency involved and thus the eye-hand feedback loop is much faster. You can start out with about a $180 unit on a fixed stand that'd do an excellent job still. Going to have to be something to experiment with.

Good point, thanks!

Called "Greedy", it's part of the Amazon free audio collection. Well worth spending a few hours digging through that and picking out a collection.