"Not fiberglass. That will be a fair bit safer, a little rough on my fingers if it get's in but should be good. Wonder what it's made of..." Asbestos! 🤣

Sorry Mr Daniels couldn’t be there to watch live stream as it’s a bit early in the morning 😂! Hope all is well 👍

Hi Paul, what program do you use for performance testing? Thank you!

Especially early/late for the states. It’s 2:06 AM. B Blod must be a damn vampire 😂 God, I hate a new computer. Just picked up my new M3 MBA realized I needed a new Ethernet dongle… which the busiest Apple Store on the East Coast of the US was out of… delivery was a month out at Apple. Got a newer one on Amazon anyway as well as a second charger. This new MagSafe will be interesting. Feel like I betrayed my 2015 MBP, at the moment my wife will be using it for remote painting classes. What an inglorious end for a great machine.

That is the worst type of fault to have come in for repair, an intermittent fault where you can not get it to repeat on the workbench.

Paul, Is that other onscreen meter that you use for voltage, amps, and diode test also available for sale?

1:07:44 before you know it your hiding all the kitchen knives 🤣

Keep missing the bloody live's nodding off due to meds, will catch one in the week Paul have a great weekend

Too late again, watching replay.

I do not know this. There are pictures of cat's on that bag you have just opened. Rewind back and you will see.

Hi, Paul, how are you ? The problem on the Mac is probably the lid sensors that are close to the CD3215

Not to brag or anything but, I thing I would have spotted that on a review 😜 Still, great content! Been riveted to my seat for the entire clip as you dig around to remove copper!

SPOILER: The tape dispenser is the best bit !!! 😂

The only thing good that came out of this stream was working how how to properly load the low-noise tape dispenser.

Pretty sure these gaming ROG laptops use liquid metal on CPU for cooling, and liquid metal is known to scoot to the side, and you get dry spots on CPU dye. You probably would have to remove the heatsink and redo the liquid metal to fix this, seems unlikely that it would be component failure of some sort

Knowing from working on Dell CPU's or laptot's. Itdoes not boot (or all the symtoms caused) without a proper working battery. Caught me out plenty of time's

Did you say the chair was sinking or _stinking_ on you? 🤯

Thanks Paul, I hadn't thought to check the PSU for the Dell SFF that decided not to work the night before it was being given to a needy family. Lucky I had a spare machine for them. Forgot I had that PSU tester. Had to get that one many, many years ago when the ATX PSUs came out and the old tester didn't work them. Please now that I haven't through the SFF box out. If someone is experiencing lag in Chat then click on the *LIVE* word next to the play button or volume slider (can't remember which it's beside 🤦‍♂). I often have the Chat go wonky and that brings it back to a LIVE status without needing to close the window and open it again or use SHIFT Refresh.

Looks like we've got a couple of machines that have come to me via another agent that were done by a B2B who recently turned off my services "We can do it ourselves, and cheaper". This is what you get when you have delusions of your skillset, and more painfully, on actual customer machines rather than your own learning gear.

The issue with working on equipment where the problem was not resolved by the last technician can be frustrating. The prior technician may have R&R many components inducing more problems due to sloppy work (for me, especially frustrating with the radio shop I work with). So, you not only have to find and repair the original problem, you then have to correct technician's induced problems.

😮 I missed the 00:15 class again 😢

Hey Paul. Sorry missed you live. But I received my unit(UYUE 946C) today as well. My hot plate isn't that wobbly as yours. Haven't opened up mine yet so it was interesting to see your teardown. Thinking what I should improve now. Earth connections are indeed first thing that seem to be very sketchy. Fuse should be replaced just to be sure. Thinking what about rest of the wires since someone already commented wires are too thin. Have to take a look for sure.

Hi paul, the discord link on your site has expired. Is there another way to join? Thank you

We got parcels😁😁

Glad you took a look inside. Well, the cables of the input are not what they say they are. I think it says 22 AWG but the mm^2 of the cores of the cables say otherwise, lol. Anyway, they are fake and not suitable for the current the plate draws. I bought a new input with 16 AWG cables in the end, changed the screws, crimped the cabels, bought teethed washers, removed enamel where necessary, recut the dirty M4 threads that are used as ground, grounded the bottom plate - ridiculous :D Btw, the cable you indentified as earth on the aluminium plate should actually be the probe of the thermostat. I'm not sure the device has a working ground at all at the moment.

Mrs. Daniels is going to get so many new baking mats you will be inundated with fresh-baked cookies. 😂 The movement in your deluxe hot plate is an anti-earthquake feature so components on hot boards don't move. 😎

Dang, one of those early lectures.😮

I still got my $1 baking mats from Coles

28:49 it's a Chinese earth

Need a repair done? pldaniels.com/repairs Looking for Microscope Ring lights or USB-C meters, they're at pldaniels.com/shop Macbook A1706 arrives with no power/charge and all USB-C ports reading only 5V ~30mA. Once I know that all ports are doing the same thing my overall suspicion is that a rail is being nerfed by a bad cap but trying to find it ends up being a bit of a goose chase and pushes me against my experience-derived gut feelings.

wow, that’s a nice find that capacitor was definitely cracked. Yeah I think that would be a good idea. Updating the guide to check that area first it seems like a lot of people get confused that first start off repairing boards

I was here 2 hours late and managed to stay awake🤣 This should be an interesting fix.

I was here 15 min early and fell back to sleep.

So speaking of plastic connectors....why do they still use "easily" meltable plastic on PCBs? I've seen some impressive uses of silicone for high temp environments..idk seems like there is a better way. Thanks for the vid!

Re: Redmi 9C - it was the large connector that carries USB power from the bottom of the phone to the screen, then to the top board. It wasn't making proper contact on the top, slightly damaged probably. I put in pieces of tape on the connector so the screws will push down more on it. Now makes good contact, not worth putting more effort into it...

Can you make a bracket to mount to the block you have it sitting over and then let it hang either over the slide arms front or rear? That would get is away from the block and maybe work better. Just a thought.

Shots fired! lol

Ah, so this is where all the live stream vids are going. Thanks again for all the "fun"!

I thought I'd comment again for the algorithm..............

I've clicked on the ding dong so YT tells me when Paul goes live🤣

I keep missing the live streams. AAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHH

So, I was wrong in the chat... Joey sets his hot air to 450'c and 50% air (not 450'c 90% air) on the Switch port. Note to Paul and all, never listen to me as my memory is not what it use to be lol.... (Or did I want to see Paul blow the board across the bench.... maybe!!) 🙃

Great stream as usual Paul...

You sure is also being very sneaky! Again no warning! Growl!

I wish YT posted the chat thread... I'd love the see the guesses at who did the work on the MacBook.

If you do routed boards held in with mousebites you would have enough space around the edge of boards to let connectors and stuff overhang correctly. No need to brake apart before pick&place after pasting.

Lockbar🤔 I repaired my Garmin 76Cx. There were three of those lockbar. For a few minutes, I could not figure out why two of the three connectors slid right in but the third didn't. Then looking at the edge, the third locked on the top side vs the bottom of the other two. Learned something new that day and I now know what they are called from this video. 😂

It's odd, not even a notification and I was home all day 😢

When you upload the stream is there any way to include the Chat as well? Don't know if it's possible. Can be a tad hard to follow when you can't see what the question was that you are responding to. Now if I can just sort out the Notifications I won't need to be concerned with that. Isn't *MATE* an acronym for My Arse Tastes Excellent. 😲 Looing forward to seeing the cattery update video and of course the kitties. I saw a video where a couple had made their whole house cat friendly with walkways and "tunnels" through wall. The spent USD$35,000 on the setup about 10 years ago. Pretty cool looking too. I think they were trying to rival you with cat numbers. 🤭

4:30 New boards and stencil 11:10 Pasting the boards 17:39 Pick & Placing parts 35:15 Roasting PCBs 44:00 Post reflow inspection & rework 53:45 Programming the AVR Tiny212 microcontrollers 55:00 Testing the boards