FOAK: Looking for someone who can replace capacitors on a motherboard.

As header. I have a specialist PC which appears to have at least 6 bad caps
(1500uf 6.3v). It is socket 370 bult a few years ago when a vast number of
caps
were filled with dodgy electrolyte (industrial espionage gone wrong). See
here for
pic of motherboard - its the 5 caps by the cpu socket plus one other.
http://www.ezgo.it/3032Pic.htm

I am prepared to spend a bit getting the caps replaced as the PC
itself is very small and has a wide variety of uses. My own desoldering and
soldering skills are not brilliant so if I can find someone who can do it
for me that would be useful. Reply here or email me (watch out for
spamtrap).

 

That shouldn't be beyond the ability of your local TV/hifi repair shop.
Back in the day (94-95) I could have removed and replaced any of the
components on that board, but I don't have kit nowadays. Whereabouts are
you?

 

platypus wrote

You can have a borra of my solder sucker if you like.

 

Shenfield (near Brentwood), Essex. Unfortunately my local TV repair shop is
now a trendy wine bar or something like that. Apparently, in these days of
affluence, people tend to just replace stuff rather than repair it.

 

TMack wrote

I have the tools, the knowledge and the skills you seek and I live in
Billericay.

625869

 

I've still got a solder sucker, so I won't need to touch yours.

 

Dead reliable tellys plus the throwaway prices of cheapshit VCRs spelled
the death of many TV repair businesses.

 

God, I love this group! I will get the new caps (1500uf 6.3v 105C
motherboard capacitors 10x12.5mm - not easy to find but I have identified
two sources) then give you a bell when I have got hold of them. That might
take up to 10 days if I have to get them from abroad.

Many thanks

 

I would have thought that 85C would be adequate

RS do them , about 50p each IIRC

 

Yes, I've done a coupe

I'm in Watford

 

But I'm looking for motherboard repairs, not cut-down cages. However, if
the venerable Auvache is not available for any reason, you may well be my
next option.

Thanks

 

Model B, or a li'l deuce?

 

TMack wrote

<fx: sucks air through teeth>

Well, I don't suppose I am the raconteur that yer average ginger furred
git is but you are certainly going to provide me with plenty of material
with which to practice.

 

Its worth a go at saving and I am willing to furnish you with beer tokens
for your efforts. However, if you are unsuccessful it would not be a
tragedy so there is no real risk involved. Nor, for that matter, are there
any chrome accessories or tassles to deal with.

 

TMack wrote

Unsuccessful!! I assure you sir that when it comes to matters of
exchanging duff elected-trick-tickle components for allegedly working
ones I do not understand the meaning of the word unsuccessful. Far too
many years spent in production test making profit for the Exxon
corporation put paid to that one.[1]


[1] I was the only bloke who could remove a 40 pin chip from a 5 layer
thru-hole plated board and still leave the board intact. Class eh?
Mind you I never told them that the trick was to cut the fucking chip
off it's legs first and then take out each one individually but they
were impressed and that is what counts.

 

<Bows in deep respect>

Lateral thinking: I love it. Like laying the engine on its side and
putting the frame over the engine instead of scratching the new frame
paint to buggery by trying to lift the engine into the upright frame.

 

The Older Gentleman says...

Been doing that for years, it was considered the only way to remove a
Z1300 motor when I was working at the Kawasaki shop.

 

Sir should try removing these new-fangled SMDs. Over 100 tiny pins on
tiny pads that are barely wide than a track that are only stuck to the
surface of the PCB with a bit of faith.

 

Pip Luscher wrote

No Sir fucking shouldn't.

Surface mounting technology came in just as I was laying up me soldering
iron professionally and for the most part were 8 leg resistor packs and
such like. Those were removed with a small bit iron to do the
unsticking and the point of a thin Xacto blade as a lever. A decent
solder sucker and a temperature controlled iron helps a lot in these
things.

 

Is this along the lines of having done a Princess?