I went to Lee Valley Tools today.
Among other things I got this.
A 10LB BOX OF SAND PAPER FOR $15.00CAD!
Everything from 20gritt to 2000gritt.
Quite the amazing deal.
The soldering torch set I got today is much like this one.
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I went to Lee Valley Tools today.
Among other things I got this.
A 10LB BOX OF SAND PAPER FOR $15.00CAD!
Everything from 20gritt to 2000gritt.
Quite the amazing deal.
The soldering torch set I got today is much like this one.
That is a crap load of sand paper, great bargain.
That's a butt load of sand paper.
And if you do cook your board and leave the plugs on the next one you're gonna get alot of, "Hey man your powers not plugged in." Then you can be like "It works on magic man." lol
That's exactly the plan Grammaton - I'm just going to get a new board, there's no chance that I'll get these plugs off without hurting the board.
Damn you ASUS and your stack cool lol.
Lookey what came in the mail today:
The rest of my 64GB G.Skill SSDs
Damn man, I thought you would have waited to get the Intel E(xtreme) series. They are only 32GB, $800US but they are the fastest drive to date lol.
Either way any SSD is a winner.
I got all these drives for about $800 - they aren't anywhere near as quick as the Intel drives but they'll be in RAID0 on a dedicated RAID card with processor and battery backup... so I bet they'll FLY.
Langer,
The reason you can't desolder very easily is most likely due to the fact that most of the pins dump directly into a ground or power plane. You are heating up a large portion of the board when you try to remove the last bit o solder. This is also an issue when you resolder the wires back in. Takes some kahones to hack up a brand new MB. I did design for 8 years before doing a 180 ans joining the Air Force. Without the air station, I always had problems desoldering from very large planes. Also the oz of copper on the plane can also make a difference, 0.5 oz to 2 oz copper, the more copper there, the harder to solder.
You work so far is first rate!
Cheers,
James
I determined the very same thing. ASUS has a tech called "Stack Cool" which is an extra layer of copper sheet to dissipate heat from the board - among other things that's the problem.
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