I'm at a point now where I just watch to support the channel but there are some great tips here, we all need to learn together and share our tips and best practices to make for a better repair industry. Well done 👏

that smile after every fix..too inspirational bro🤞

I have absolutely no business with soldering / desoldering BGAs, but I found this fascinating. Thank you Sir!

The feeling at the end: "Am I good or am I good!". Nice job.

I see that every time he fixes something and it comes out perfect, we hear him say, Problem is solved", then you see a shit eating grin,....Boss level CORRECT!! and what satisfaction it must be to have fixed something that so few can. He is actually a very generous person and that's another reason I love this channel. Learn so much about repair and life lessons to boot. Thanks for that.

Bro you’re a Pro and make it easy. I can’t wait for the training school to start

Although this is an old video, it never gets old seing the happy smile of successful fix! Thank you Alex for sharing your knowledge and passion with us and the scientists...

2:15 "Won't even cut water" I've got to remember to use that phrase!

This is excellent. Some great tips in here for removing solder. Thank you!

This guy is indeed Boss level!

Hi, I have watched some other person videos who repairs MacBooks " hope you gets his name" but when I watched your video...I was not able to grab you accent but now I gets it....the reason I watch your video more is that you stick to the repairing and not with other subject and you directly talks to the point...you video are perfectly in duration...take care all the best

I can Feel the Happiness in your face after a Device is fixed. It's not an easy thing to identify the correct part and fix it with such tiny parts even under the Microscope. It takes years of experience to achieve such a Skill!

I'm still training my hand, apart from the theoretical knowledge that you get in school you really need a good hand for this. The techniques learned on this channel help a lot! I believe I speak for all subscribers here when I say Thank you!

The feels when it's fixed. Priceless!

As these little devices are starting to show in guitar amplifiers....I guess I'm gonna gave to learn to deal with them. I've been watching you for a month or so... really learning a lot. Bought some new soldering equipment and moving forward. Thanks.

You can see the satisfaction on your face when it worked. I also had a smile when the wifi kicked on. Awesome to watch. 🤙🏻

The smile on your face! Fantastic!!

KZfaq recommended this to me, never have i been interested in this kind of work, now i cant stop watching this. You make this look easy, makes me want to go get broken devices to see if i can fix them, thank-you for sharing.

2:13 this cutter does not even cut water - you just have to love this guy.

I enjoy watching content like this when people show you their skills instead of telling you how great they are. Also cool to see that their is pride in their work.

Love that Smile at the end when the Problem was fixed Love it

Its amazing that you found the chip at fault with no obvious shorts or anything near by.....just a software issue. You are truly a expert.

Thanks for sharing your method of cleaning the solder balls from the board. Excellent work and great repair job.

Amazing! I am a doctor, but not a surgeon. During residency I had the opportunity to assist in brain surgery. What you do is no different than neurosurgery! Besides opening the scalp, burning small bleeding vessels with an equivalent of the hot tweezers (uses RF instead of heat). Opening the skull with burr holes in a triangle form that don’t touch the brain, then, a diamond thread is carefully run from one hole to another hole under the skull without touching the brain, and by running back and forth the bone is cut. Do that 3 x and a triangular piece of bone is removed and put in a metal container with saline solution. Then it is all under the microscope. Surgeon and assistant, each with their microscope locate the target, be it a bleed around the brain (easy to remove clot & then clamp the broken vessel) For superficial tumors tumors they need to be carefully dissected & removed without damaging any of the surrounding area. The only instrument that you don’t use is an ultrasonic liquifier probe that turns tissue into a paste that can be “sucked out”. The operating macro-scope similar to the one you use has 2 heads so the 2 surgeons see the same thing or they can use 2 separate scopes. The surgery is done by knowing the anatomy. They cannot see the neurons, or axons, since these are microscopic structures. There are microscopic structures that work like “chips”: Unfortunately we can’t replace parts ☹️! The neurosurgeon has to know from studying, what “chip” “wires” are where and what they do. Of course there are very detailed “wiring drawings” of the microscopic structures and where they are generally located. A “general schematic diagram”. Anatomical variations are frequent! Meaning there is a “standard schematic of the brain” but it’s not always the same in everyone! So the surgeon needs to try to figure out if it follows the “general schematic” or not without being able to see “ the wires” or “chips” 😳🤔🙄. No using RF tweezers on the brain itself, this would cause a seizure. I encourage you to watch a neurosurgery for tumor removal . Several are available on KZfaq. Your skills are identical to those of a seasoned neurosurgeon! I really admire your talent! Congratulations Dr. T

Replacing BGA IS REALLY RISK, but Alex u r smart and expert, using all repairing tools and your brain.

i just saw today and became a big fan of him .Look at him how easily job done just amazing.

Great job. Youve been working a bench for a while and it shows.

Great video as always, a small pair of tin snips would make your life a lot easier doing this and give you a nice clean cut. They used to sell them as Jewellers snips over here in the UK.

You are becoming legend.... Learned new super technique of soldering and......... A very big thumb....👍👍👍👍👍

I like watching these videos so much that I feel an urge to break a component to watch you fix it.

I have been watching lots of you videos for a few days and I enjoy watching your highly skilled work.

Excellent BGA chip replacement tips & tricks tutorial. Thanks NF!

Fantastic Smile. After every problem solution Techie will have this heart felt smile on the face. Keep going Bro. I keep watching your repairing tips. Very good information. 😊👍

Your smile after each successful video, that's what we're all going for!

i think your skill level is morethan 100 you are G.O.A.T!!

It's beautiful to see your smile when the problems are solved. 👍😉

I'll get right to the point... you are amazing with your skills!

experience is better than knowledge from the book ...technician from philippines yehhh

with every video i learn something new جزاك الله كل خير

Your videos has inspired me to get into electronics repair. I have bought a couple of dead boards to practice on. Thank you your in depth videos

Love the hot tweezers/wick method. Started doing it myself. Thanks.

Broadcom is usually a pretty good hint as to the identity of the wifi/bluetooth IC.

Your good teacher I'm big fan of you Your bga trick super ❤😊 love you sir...now I'm your subscriber.

Very inspiring! I do have older tech products wanted them fixed and pass to generations. I had same wifi bluetooth problem from sitting long tablet and thought it was buggy Sam* product. Wish it could be fixed long ago.

For months (almost 6) I had the wrong number of chip to replace in 1 of my Tower PCs so I thought it was just a pin CPU to replace with no fan attached... nope I looked up the right number & it's actually a BGA CPU chip. No way I can practice & get the equipment to apply it (at least I can easily buy 1+). Now I have to sent it somebody that still knows how to remove & apply them properly like you. Hopefully my other PC (also from the 2000s) isn't also a BGA (but likely is).

Genius guy i ever seen with lot of experience and technology ❤️❤️❤️

I didn't have iron tweezers, so I made an loop with the soldering wick and wrapped it around my finger and looped the end through the top and tightened it around the tip of the solder iron where it rest on top of the wick and it worked fairly well.

Fantastic. I’m a newer subscriber. Have you ever talked about your years of experience since your college years? If so, what video would that be? If not, would you be willing to make a video talking about it as I’m sure there are a ton of us curious and interested in hearing how you accumulated your knowledge and experience, during and post-college. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and techniques meanwhile being extremely entertaining!

I've been writing software for 20 years, I've got three separate honours degrees, and this guy just blew my f****** mind! I bow down to your kung-fu master.

Makes it look easy...the sigh of an expert

I'm so glad you made this channel and I stumbled apon it some really awesome content and tips

This guy is a genius

This guy makes Jerryrigeverything and every other phone repair experts look like childs play.

Very nice sir, i am a huge electronics fan and your videos give lots of inspiration and shows loyalty towards work. Thanks for a lot for all the tricks i learned from your videos, hope to learn and impliment in my projects. All the best.

Man you are so good! I just got into this stuff and I'm seriously no good, I do EXACTLY what I see you guys do and I get VERY different results :-/

Wow! Great video. Love the extra tips. So weirded out to see people touching the BGA chip while it is being reflowed onto the board, seems like that could mis-align it.

The method he used with the hit tweezers and wick was next level genius 🤯

This is what hard work and dedication is🤖

I was recording a video today and I was sitting there like.. how does Northridgefix fit repairs + film and editing in a single day?! Great job boss, would love to work for your shop, unfortunately nowhere near cali! I'm in north east Ohio! Hopefully I can fly out there for a visit one day!

i love how you fix things my man.. from philippines..

You made that BGA solder job look easy. I know it's not, though. Nice.

You are great man n I love the way you put your informations down n it clearly shows you learned them through your experience. Thx a lot mate you are helping us a lot n I am your new fan from this video

I learned alot from you and from Tronicsfix. Greetings from Germany

America's next top Talent 👍👍

Thanks for the video. I got some really good pointers there! Can't wait until something breaks lol

I'm impressed with the reflow method with the amount of flux used. I was always taught that a thin layer for the reflow. Buying myself some tweezers now, love that method.

Watching your video was useful for me. Thank you.

Thank you for your presentations,and what type of Hot tweezers you use and where to find them?

When our work succes can see a confident smile on our face ... Great 👌 job man , congrats... I have some questions to you ,if spare sometimes to me. Thanks

Nice fix, I could learn off this channel.

Dude is for real a beast. no joke. but hes got all the tools, that hot air gun is temp controlled.

I learned alot of you bro you are very correct master and tells all what you work greatings from Kosovo respect.👊👍

I`m sure i ask you a question that for sure is repeating but what temperature are you set for disoldering the chip?Thanks a lot!Love your videos!

Alex, You are the best!

I just love watching you,, Amazingly well explained plus your funny guy..😁

😄🤣😂 I started laughing when you tested the piece of hot desoldering braid with smoke rising from your fingers. I am thinking to myself, oh no another convert to the ElectroBOOM school of electronics. 😁. By the way, excellent tips 👍

Amaizing method! Work is better :) Today i got broken gopro hero+ for repair :) regards from poland.

7:26 "Half of my fingers are burnt"🤣

I like to see his happy face when he fix something.

NorthridgeFix "Repairing the Unrepairable" 👍😎

Keep up the good work idol always watching your video from old and from the present 👌

Wow. Thanks for sharing your re-work technique. Should be good for other SMD parts, too.

I use a similar technique with wick, but with hot air instead. Take a small piece of wick, bend it in half and use bent side on the pads. 340C at 90 air (same station as his, judging from beeps it makes), wick heats up before anything else has a chance to even melt. Of course, hot tweezers are much better because you avoid additional heat to the board, but I don't have them.

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Classics... Thank you for sharing!

this is most important lesson thank you very much sir 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Extremely well done Sir, was the IC pre-reballed? Why didn't you use a bottom heater, whenever I tried to use the hot-air the nearby components vanish off? What's the temperature setting of the hot-air? Regards

Great video and amazing tips once again. Thanks for sharing

Thanks for your sharing work your video helpful my technical life love ❤from 🇮🇳

Imagine this be a TV Show and every customer is a actor xD

You are the best of the best.

I have to desolder a keyboard and trackpad connectors of a donnor board to replace the ones on my asus laptop tomorrow...I have no hot air station and no experience whatsoever....Im going to practice on 2 other connectors that the donnor board has that i dont need and after a couple tries im gonna go in for the kill...Wish me luck please my fellow Northridgefixheads... :)

wow i have no words just you are amaziing sir i wish i love working as an asistance for you ?

You r doing fabulous job

I don’t recommend mixing leaded with unleaded in a car☺️

I wish I had the skill and tools to do this, but I don't - on to the next video!

Great job, as always. Perfect. 👍👌

It amazing how little these boards are.

Inspirational! How about those 60 thumbs down tho, what nonsense was going through their heads?! 🧐

I have many years as an elect. Tech and never mess with this type of chips. Looks like the alignment during soldering is very critical... Sny tips to make sure the alignment is correct during the soldering ..