Stock Electronic Image FAILS

[Red Squirrel]

That's just temporary glue for when the cpu goes through the reflow oven so it can be soldered to the socket. 

[Mr. Scram]

WHY?!

That's one hurts a but. You can remove the glue from pretty much any part of the motherboard without much issues, but those pins will be seriously messed up when hotglued.

[Cyberdragon]

They're not gluing the pins, they're gluing the bypass caps, which is pointless.

[Mr. Scram]

They're not gluing the pins, they're gluing the bypass caps, which is pointless.

You haven't worked with hot glue, I suppose . That stuff gets everywhere.

Though I just realized you could reflow the tin on the bypass caps, if you're really in a pickle. Like a in a war, besieged, with this computer being between you and being saved, and no other tools than a hot glue gun pickle.

[james_s]

Isopropyl alcohol works pretty well to remove hot glue. The stuff does bond really well to certain surfaces though.

[Mr. Scram]

Isopropyl alcohol works pretty well to remove hot glue. The stuff does bond really well to certain surfaces though.

Removing isn't the issue in itself, as glue typically peels off surfaces, it's the force that requires when combined with pins that bend when looked at sideways.

[NiHaoMike]

That reminds me of how extreme overclockers would fill the socket with something nonconductive to prevent condensation when using dry ice or liquid nitrogen, but they generally don't use hot glue for that.

[Mr. Scram]

That reminds me of how extreme overclockers would fill the socket with something nonconductive to prevent condensation when using dry ice or liquid nitrogen, but they generally don't use hot glue for that.

Putty, which they put on most of the board

[Red Squirrel]

Sometimes ram can be hard to get in!

[rx8pilot]

 

[Cyberdragon]

Sometimes ram can be hard to get in!

Look, it's Bob the Builder! Can he fix it?

No...not like that.

[Mr. Scram]

Is that the infamous Row hammer attack?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Row_hammer

[Brumby]

Some of these are so painful to look at....   

... I'm splitting my sides with laughter.   

[Cubdriver]

Percussive maintenance!

-Pat

[trophosphere]

In the past, I've seen a person take a dremel to a new RAM stick because it wouldn't fit into the RAM slot of their motherboard. This was back in the early 2000s when the new fangled DDR2 SDRAM was introduced but DDR was still mainstream.

[lowimpedance]

A hammer to insert and pliers to extract.  .
That picture has made my day  .

[AF6LJ]

Sometimes ram can be hard to get in!

Someone should teach that boy how to hold a hammer.

[Bashstreet]

Sometimes ram can be hard to get in!

Lmao

[rrinker]

Here's one from the digikey "catalogue":
https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/panasonic-electronic-components/ECW-U1102JX5/PCF1348CT-ND/353833

Look closely at the picture of the capacitor.

 Give you a good one to photograph?!?!?! We're not going to waste money that way, just take a picture of this reject.

[Mr. Scram]

Give you a good one to photograph?!?!?! We're not going to waste money that way, just take a picture of this reject.

It could be worse.

"What you do you mean, reject?"

[james_s]

From a 1973 NRI advertisement for electronic technician training.

[Cyberdragon]

I've already destroyed this computer, now to destroy this phone with my screwdrivers!



Rockaby baby in the tree top *SIZZLE* "OH SHIT!"



I can't even look at my terrible soldering



he finally found what he was going to solder! wait a minute...



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[Electro Detective]

Sometimes ram can be hard to get in!

ok, the hammer may get the job done if no sledge available

but the thin pliers won't grip the ram properly for extraction in case it's in the wrong way

DIY-ers should really take note of those ram line up tabs, and invest in vice grips...   

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[Gyro]

Pah, everyone knows that if you've got a decent grip, it smells like Pork! 

[Lord of nothing]