Well, THAT'S not gonna be POSTing for a while...

Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
edited April 2005 in Hardware
Gravity broke the G4 I had a while back (the power supply fell on it. It was not my fault. Was not was not was not. :lol: ). Broke a small 4-position 22 ohm resistor array on the back of the chipset.

So I pulled a replacement resistor off this old Soyo board I had sitting around. Broke the Apple board beyond repair trying to solder the new resistor onto it. So now I had two dead boards. I figured that since the Soyo was now dead anyhow, I might as well take the northbridge and southbridge off it and use them as keychains...

Now, the nb and sb are bga packages, and the only way to get them off is to melt all the solder balls on the underside of the chip at once... There are only two ways I can think of to do this; a heat gun or a blowtorch. I didn't have a heat gun sitting around, so I took my blowtorch to the back of the board instead...

Comments

  • ZuntarZuntar North Carolina Icrontian
    edited April 2005
    S W E E T, thanks fer the pics!!!!!

    Sorry for yer losses chief!
  • HawkHawk Fla Icrontian
    edited April 2005
    Wowser! FIRE! FIRE! FIRE! Get out the fire extinguisher! Bummer on loss of the boards.
    I wouldn't have yelled that if we were in a theater. lol
  • fishsaucefishsauce
    edited April 2005
    Ouch, btw how'd you get the blowtorch?
  • ZuntarZuntar North Carolina Icrontian
    edited April 2005
    fishsauce wrote:
    Ouch, btw how'd you get the blowtorch?
    Doesn't everybody have a blowtorch?
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited April 2005
    fishsauce wrote:
    Ouch, btw how'd you get the blowtorch?

    erm... I went to the hardware store a few months back and bought one...
  • fishsaucefishsauce
    edited April 2005
    No not everyone. WE are talking about a blow torch right? Not a propane torch which costs $15 bucks.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited April 2005
    It's a butane torch actually. Just a little handheld one. My dad won't let me play with his acetelyne torch, and UoP would probably have a problem with me having one of those in my dorm anyhow... :haha: A proper blowtorch would've done significantly more damage...
  • ZuntarZuntar North Carolina Icrontian
    edited April 2005
    fishsauce wrote:
    No not everyone. WE are talking about a blow torch right? Not a propane torch which costs $15 bucks.
    Most call that a blow torch.
  • yaggayagga Havn't you heard? ... New
    edited April 2005
    Hawk wrote:
    Wowser! FIRE! FIRE! FIRE! Get out the fire extinguisher! Bummer on loss of the boards.
    I wouldn't have yelled that if we were in a theater. lol
    I would've!

    Zuntar wrote:
    Doesn't everybody have a blowtorch?
    But of course, we are a state of blowtorch frenzy-heads.

    [SPEAK-TO=Geeky1] Burning stuff is awesome, especially once you forget the losses...[/SPEAK-TO]
  • HawkHawk Fla Icrontian
    edited April 2005
    Last time i saw one of these, I was rummaging through my Dads old worktools!
    Blow Torch
    blowtorch1ci.jpg
    And I didn't realize they still make something similar--- lol
    blowtorch25xx.jpg
    And here's the propane torch... BTW, I've used all versions and acetylene torch. propanetorch8tx.jpg
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