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They say pics or it didn't happen so here's a top-secret photo smuggled out of Intel's packaging facilities showing the return to solder!



And yes, to those of you who are about to post... I know.

Ow, ow, ow, ow!!!

That's not the magic smoke you're looking for.

Great pic! What I like most is that Shutterstock apparently does not have a single employee that can recognize the multitude of problems with this photo.

At least she's cute.
Wonder if any of those caps were Chinese..................

Aether wrote:

Great pic! What I like most is that Shutterstock apparently does not have a single employee that can recognize the multitude of problems with this photo.

You can't expect a tech company that sells millions of stock photos to actually have their tech-literate staff see even a tiny fraction of them personally.

So let's see...

>Her ring might not fly depending on the FOD control of the area.
>She has zero static-safe devices (wrist strap, smock, anti-static bench material).
>One would not be soldering that board on that side...nor with that
>The soldering iron cable should not be going under the bench.
>And she's missing the iron holder, cleaner, and solder/flux.

But hey, at least she has safety goggles!

And I'm just assuming her hands are made of asbestos.

superjawes wrote:

>One would not be soldering that board on that side...nor with that

What, you don't repair delicate multi-layer boards with a 40W RadioShack iron running the coveted 5mm "BurnzAll" tip?

Actually, to be completely honest, I have recapped one or two motherboards that way in the distant past. However, those boards were not particularly valuable and the RS iron was the only one available at the moment of need.

superjawes wrote:

So let's see...

>Her ring might not fly depending on the FOD control of the area.
>She has zero static-safe devices (wrist strap, smock, anti-static bench material).
>One would not be soldering that board on that side...nor with that
>The soldering iron cable should not be going under the bench.
>And she's missing the iron holder, cleaner, and solder/flux.

But hey, at least she has safety goggles!

And I'm just assuming her hands are made of asbestos.

And it looks like she's about to solder a battery. Maybe it needs a soldered heat spreader.

Intel? I was sure that this was from a state-of-the-art prosthetics lab running tests on their new extreme heat-resistant product line.

"With our new line of appendages, oven mitts and flame retardant gloves and boots for foundry workers are a thing of the past! Ask your HMO about our all new thermoshield coated limbs today!"

I guess she wasn't particularly successful at whatever she was doing, so she handed the mobo and the iron to a friend with a liiiiittle more knowledge.

https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/beautiful-woman-repair-soldering-printed-circuit-168407696

https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/beautiful-woman-repair-soldering-printed-circuit-168407714

There may be more to discover here but Shutterstock will only let me search for photos by the same photographer or those of the same model. I don't see the options "same motherboard" and "same soldering iron".

superjawes wrote:

So let's see...

>Her ring might not fly depending on the FOD control of the area.
>She has zero static-safe devices (wrist strap, smock, anti-static bench material).
>One would not be soldering that board on that side...nor with that
>The soldering iron cable should not be going under the bench.
>And she's missing the iron holder, cleaner, and solder/flux.

But hey, at least she has safety goggles!

And I'm just assuming her hands are made of asbestos.

What about an air vacuum sucking the fumes from the soldering? We definitely don't want to inhale that.

She is definitely kawaii. So, I forgive her.

uni-mitation

ludi wrote:

What, you don't repair delicate multi-layer boards with a 40W RadioShack iron running the coveted 5mm "BurnzAll" tip?

Actually, to be completely honest, I have recapped one or two motherboards that way in the distant past. However, those boards were not particularly valuable and the RS iron was the only one available at the moment of need.

I have as well. You actually need quite a bit of heat to unsolder/solder the caps, since the ground and power planes act like big heatsinks!

uni-mitation wrote:

What about an air vacuum sucking the fumes from the soldering? We definitely don't want to inhale that.

I soldered thousands of connections when I was younger without a ventilation hood. Probably explains some things...

just brew it! wrote:

uni-mitation wrote:

What about an air vacuum sucking the fumes from the soldering? We definitely don't want to inhale that.

I soldered thousands of connections when I was younger without a ventilation hood. Probably explains some things...

Vacuum hoods ruin that new motherboard smell we all crave!

just brew it! wrote:

uni-mitation wrote:

What about an air vacuum sucking the fumes from the soldering? We definitely don't want to inhale that.

I soldered thousands of connections when I was younger without a ventilation hood. Probably explains some things...

She *should* be using lead-free solder, so the hood isn't entirely necessary.

superjawes wrote:

just brew it! wrote:

uni-mitation wrote:

What about an air vacuum sucking the fumes from the soldering? We definitely don't want to inhale that.

I soldered thousands of connections when I was younger without a ventilation hood. Probably explains some things...

She *should* be using lead-free solder, so the hood isn't entirely necessary.

I only ever used the leaded type. I still have a couple of spools of it (in two different diameters) for repair work.

The flux fumes aren't great for you either...

what were they using before the solder?