Recent content by RoamPT

If you don't hear from me for a week that means my wife found out. Tapatalk is a forum app for smartphones to easily use forums. https://www.tapatalk.com/ Sent from my SM-G973W using Tapatalk

Appreciate it anyway. I love how the community here helps anyone out without BS(so far [emoji1]). I will be careful and steal anyway some of my wife tools. I will just tell her that she must have misplaced it or something. She doesn't inspect my work areas [emoji1787] Oh I have sent you a one...

Many thanks RIP-Felix, I knew you were going to have your own method and to be fair I prefer that one instead of using the hammer as well [emoji1] I'm good with a hammer, maybe too good and I will think it's a damn brick wall and there goes my PS3. I will attempt this between today or tomorrow...

Yeah that was my fault. I knew I should have done it but I guess I rushed too much. I will get that done for sure. Maybe use the hair dryer to soften the glue under the ihs? I don't want to attempt it with the heat gun. Sent from my SM-G973W using Tapatalk

@RIP-Felix So I have applied liquid flux and made sure it went in under both the cpu and gpu. Used the heat gun to bake/melt the solder contacts and did two passes with a cooling down in between, just to make sure it removed any cracked solder point. Now this is where I should have had removed...

I agree! I'm what you consider a console collector, even tho my favorite platform is PC. I have opened almost every system I have. I have in total 17 consoles all working besides the one YLOD PS3 that I need to reflow. I have learned so much by just opening them and researching on the web. I'm...

Thanks once again! Most definitely worth a read and learn more about these systems! It's been fun and I have learned a lot from these complex systems. Oh so the last PS3 I got with the fan, it's actually the 19 blade one, so it's another bonus right there. If I'm correct the Japanese model had...

Thank you for the help and for that tutorial. I'm waiting for some supplies to come as Amazon is taking ages to deliver due to a wharehouse temporary closer (Canada). I would love to learn how to reball! I will reply here with the results. Oh I have also snatched during the weekend another...

I have no issues repairing it, I was hoping I could get away without re-balling as I have trust issues and I don't fully trust other people repairing my stuff. I'm pretty good at soldering, I have done micro soldering in my Gamecube, my Dreamcast etc. No issues in soldering. I'm not good with...

That was very informative! Yes it did have it in the past like 9 years ago and I sent it to someone to reflow it. But after my experience dealing with this kind of stuff I doubt the guy even did the reflow, I believe he just changed the thermal paste since it was a quick repair since I waited in...

Would these work? https://www.digikey.ca/en/products/detail/T495D477K006ATE125/399-3886-1-ND/819211?itemSeq=364073731 Or is the ohm's too high for the use? Maybe these? https://www.digikey.ca/en/products/detail/avx-corporation/TPSE477K006R0060/3068718 Much appreciated, my old ps3 fat I'm...