BigDumbDinosaur wrote:
The mainboards in Commodore’s eight-bit machines were famously fragile. I always approached the task of desoldering a part in one of those units with considerable caution.
I even bought a desoldering station for that purpose after accidentally ripping some traces by pulling out a DRAM (I was repairing lots of dead C64s at that time, occasionally salvaging some precious SIDs or socketing them.) Desoldering gun makes it effortless, and I never used any other tools ever since.
There's one downside though: when you have a desoldering station, everything looks like it could use some desoldering.
BigDumbDinosaur wrote:
If it were me, I’d bring this to the attention of JLCPCB. I’m sure their QC people would want to know about it.[/color]
Totally. Cheap PCB manufacturing seems to be a highly competitive market nowadays, so I'm sure they will be happy to get that feedback, possibly even compensating you for damages.
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