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 👏
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!
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...
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!
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 TH-cam. Your skills are identical to those of a seasoned neurosurgeon! I really admire your talent! Congratulations Dr. T
TH-cam 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. 😊👍
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 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!
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.
Tapping the chip off axis and allowing the surface tension of the liquid solder balls to return the chip to correct alignment ensures all the solder balls are liquid and so all the pads will have the correct connections.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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).
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
You are absolutely a pioneer in your field. I am just now starting to get BGA soldering to expand on my skill set. Do you ever replace the GPU on the 2011 15 & 17" Macbook Pros??
Dude you can do it for yourself but you cannot get new IC so they always fail (2011 MBP). It’s a false economy, I would know I did the repairs for 3 years
Johnathan Waters I’m not going to answer that, it’s up to you to understand how much you value your time. Also you can’t compare 2 customer machines to say I’ve lasted 2 months vs 50 months since it’s all about the intensity and duration the dedicated GPU is actually used. One customer may use it for just surfing the web another who is rendering 8K videos on his assumed “fixed POS”. Just convert your dead machine to internal graphics by disabling the dedicated GPU intel 3000 graphics which a lot of machines come with as standard
Merhaba çok iyi işçiğiniz var. Fakat dikkat ediyorum çok fazla FLUX sürüyorsunuz. Bir çip yada Parçaya ne kadar Flux alacağını tahmin edip ona göre sıkmanız gerektiğini düşünüyorum. Tabi bu benim fikrim. Temizlik ve Stabil bir işlem için.
Is it alright to keep the temperature of the hot air that high? I was always told to keep it under 280 deg C so as not to damage the components. It takes forever to melt the joints this way though which probably might damage the IC anyways. I always wondered what the ideal temperature would be. I have gone as high as 350 but wondered how in your videos the solder melts much faster. Great video, thanks for making these.
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.
😄🤣😂 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 👍
Nice job! I have the exact same tablet and it gets stuck during boot up at the Samsung logo. I checked the battery connector to see if some pins weren't soldered properly, I disconnected the battery and reconnected it after leaving it sit for several hours, and I also reflashed the BIOS. Still no luck. It's too bad actually as I liked the tablet. I'm not sure what I could possibly try next. Thank you for the video!
Shouldn't make a difference. An occasional "mix" might just do some good as in cleaning parts of the car's injections systems or other areas. Mr. Scotty says it's ok and that's good enough for me. At first I thought you were talking about "soldering'" in a moving car. Now that could be a hazard.
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🤞
You truly see how haapy he is for his customer. Thats the spirit ...
I was thinking the samething.
"Right there!" Very satisfying repair videos.
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.
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!
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...
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!
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 TH-cam.
Your skills are identical to those of a seasoned neurosurgeon! I really admire your talent!
Congratulations
Dr. T
Bro you’re a Pro and make it easy. I can’t wait for the training school to start
Replacing BGA IS REALLY RISK, but Alex u r smart and expert, using all repairing tools and your brain.
TH-cam 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.
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.
2:15 "Won't even cut water" I've got to remember to use that phrase!
Me too ahahahah 😂😂😂
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.
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.
This is excellent. Some great tips in here for removing solder. Thank you!
You can see the satisfaction on your face when it worked. I also had a smile when the wifi kicked on. Awesome to watch. 🤙🏻
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.
2:13 this cutter does not even cut water - you just have to love this guy.
The feels when it's fixed. Priceless!
I like watching these videos so much that I feel an urge to break a component to watch you fix it.
Love that Smile at the end when the Problem was fixed Love it
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.
He said he had a pair he used for that, but he couldn't locate them, right then. 👍
This guy is indeed Boss level!
Yes.... But LG phone is not seen now a days
@@Sekhar_Home what are you babbling about??
Why does it feel good to get likes on my comment?
his boss is the BIG boss.
Defenately!
The smile on your face! Fantastic!!
Thanks for sharing your method of cleaning the solder balls from the board. Excellent work and great repair job.
You are becoming legend.... Learned new super technique of soldering and......... A very big thumb....👍👍👍👍👍
Thanks so much dear for favorite online classes 😘💖. We really love science and technology raw materials. 🏭
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!
i just saw today and became a big fan of him .Look at him how easily job done just amazing.
Broadcom is usually a pretty good hint as to the identity of the wifi/bluetooth IC.
yes, they had ethernet, card reader, wifi, bluetooth and some other too
i think your skill level is morethan 100 you are G.O.A.T!!
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. 😊👍
I have been watching lots of you videos for a few days and I enjoy watching your highly skilled work.
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 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!
Your smile after each successful video, that's what we're all going for!
Great job. Youve been working a bench for a while and it shows.
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.
Tapping the chip off axis and allowing the surface tension of the liquid solder balls to return the chip to correct alignment ensures all the solder balls are liquid and so all the pads will have the correct connections.
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
Do you have any suggestions as to where to buy boards to practice on?
experience is better than knowledge from the book ...technician from philippines yehhh
It's beautiful to see your smile when the problems are solved. 👍😉
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
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.
Makes it look easy...the sigh of an expert
Genius guy i ever seen with lot of experience and technology ❤️❤️❤️
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.
The method he used with the hit tweezers and wick was next level genius 🤯
Excellent BGA chip replacement tips & tricks tutorial. Thanks NF!
with every video i learn something new
جزاك الله كل خير
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.
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
He says 470C starting at airspeed "80"
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 :-/
Love the hot tweezers/wick method. Started doing it myself. Thanks.
How to make that hot tweezer can u explain
@@parasrastogi1556 Seriously 🤦🏽♂️
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.
This is what hard work and dedication is🤖
Dude is for real a beast. no joke. but hes got all the tools, that hot air gun is temp controlled.
Your good teacher I'm big fan of you Your bga trick super ❤😊 love you sir...now I'm your subscriber.
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.
What advice would you give to someone who wants to start writing software for test benches? Thank you in advance
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).
Would love to know how much you charge for that job!? So neat and tidy!
i love how you fix things my man.. from philippines..
I'm so glad you made this channel and I stumbled apon it some really awesome content and tips
America's next top Talent 👍👍
You made that BGA solder job look easy. I know it's not, though. Nice.
I like to see his happy face when he fix something.
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'll get right to the point... you are amazing with your skills!
Amaizing method! Work is better :) Today i got broken gopro hero+ for repair :) regards from poland.
This guy is a genius
Thanks for the video. I got some really good pointers there! Can't wait until something breaks lol
You are absolutely a pioneer in your field. I am just now starting to get BGA soldering to expand on my skill set. Do you ever replace the GPU on the 2011 15 & 17" Macbook Pros??
Do not bother getting into MacBook GPU replacement that ship sailed about 5-6 years ago
@@aqib2000 I'm not. I am doing a repair for my own use.
Dude you can do it for yourself but you cannot get new IC so they always fail (2011 MBP). It’s a false economy, I would know I did the repairs for 3 years
@@aqib2000 So I've heard. Whats the longest youve seen one last? I don't mind doing it every 6 months.
Johnathan Waters I’m not going to answer that, it’s up to you to understand how much you value your time.
Also you can’t compare 2 customer machines to say I’ve lasted 2 months vs 50 months since it’s all about the intensity and duration the dedicated GPU is actually used.
One customer may use it for just surfing the web another who is rendering 8K videos on his assumed “fixed POS”.
Just convert your dead machine to internal graphics by disabling the dedicated GPU intel 3000 graphics which a lot of machines come with as standard
Thank you for your videos it helps me a lot but I want to know why you but flux before you remove the circuit
for safety
Merhaba çok iyi işçiğiniz var. Fakat dikkat ediyorum çok fazla FLUX sürüyorsunuz. Bir çip yada Parçaya ne kadar Flux alacağını tahmin edip ona göre sıkmanız gerektiğini düşünüyorum. Tabi bu benim fikrim. Temizlik ve Stabil bir işlem için.
Is it alright to keep the temperature of the hot air that high? I was always told to keep it under 280 deg C so as not to damage the components. It takes forever to melt the joints this way though which probably might damage the IC anyways. I always wondered what the ideal temperature would be. I have gone as high as 350 but wondered how in your videos the solder melts much faster. Great video, thanks for making these.
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.
Awesome video. Just ordered some flux from you. You should be "Big Boss." Where do you get hot tweezers?
thank you very much for this video i have questions
what is this wick and from where i can get it
2- please we need to learn how to reballing ices
Imagine this be a TV Show and every customer is a actor xD
Wow. Thanks for sharing your re-work technique. Should be good for other SMD parts, too.
Keep up the good work idol always watching your video from old and from the present 👌
😄🤣😂 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 👍
ElectroBOOM is on whole other level of self destroying man 😂😂 ,yet he makes us laugh with those silly mistakes
Very good education video, just one thig i didnt here good is ti 470C or u meant 370C at 80 airflow (thats 80%?) thx, for answer
NorthridgeFix
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Inspirational! How about those 60 thumbs down tho, what nonsense was going through their heads?! 🧐
Nice fix, I could learn off this channel.
I learned alot of you bro you are very correct master and tells all what you work greatings from Kosovo respect.👊👍
Nice job! I have the exact same tablet and it gets stuck during boot up at the Samsung logo. I checked the battery connector to see if some pins weren't soldered properly, I disconnected the battery and reconnected it after leaving it sit for several hours, and I also reflashed the BIOS. Still no luck. It's too bad actually as I liked the tablet. I'm not sure what I could possibly try next. Thank you for the video!
I don’t recommend mixing leaded with unleaded in a car☺️
Shouldn't make a difference.
An occasional "mix" might just do some good as in cleaning parts of the car's injections systems or other areas.
Mr. Scotty says it's ok and that's good enough for me.
At first I thought you were talking about "soldering'" in a moving car.
Now that could be a hazard.
I learned alot from you and from Tronicsfix. Greetings from Germany
your hand is so steady without touching small parts around it
wow i have no words just you are amaziing sir i wish i love working as an asistance for you ?
Watching your video was useful for me. Thank you.
this is most important lesson thank you very much sir 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
I wish I had the skill and tools to do this, but I don't - on to the next video!
Hi, i understand correct, 470 Celsius for resolder the chip?