The short segment on drive cleaning is comedy gold, because it is both ridiculously charming, and ridiculously passive-aggressive at exactly the same time.
54:38 two dollars for a completely defective Osborne System board? I take a dozen! (although he's probably not referring to Osborne system boards but rather random e-waste boards or unpopulated PCBs with manufacturing defects)
@@booboo699254 I think I get it; I was mostly expressing surprise (esp. re: protecting people nearby :) ). Since the pins are inaccessible until the plastic is cut away, I guess we can't heat with an iron on one side and suck with a solder pump on the other (which is a current best approach that I know).
@@DrDavesDiversions I’ve had to do it to remove hybrid power management boards of Macintosh portable computers. It’s basically a board like an arduino or pi pico with 80 pins or so like a chip and I had to cut the board up so the fiberglass pieces will shoot off everywhere could easily take your eye out. Got to be very careful and it is definately painful to watch. And a bit sad having to lose the original. But it makes removing it so much easier. I’ve also done a lot of non destructive part removals with flux, solder Wick, heat guns and desoldering itons. I think the most challenging one so far was a 68030 CPU which has 128 pins and the chip itself is basically a big heat sink. Still need to find out if the heat I had to use to remove it didn’t destroy it 🤔 The method i use for stuff like that is to use flux, a hako desoldering gun and then blast it with hot air at the same time with a heat gun. That usually does the job for the stubborn pins.
