[sdiy] Another new hard to find part....

[Colin Hinz]

On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Magnus Danielson wrote of an SMT brain-surgeon:

> He now has some 4 gig of pictures with components mounted on cards etc. etc.
>
> Kids, don't try THIS at home:
> http://ebs.homedns.org/bilder/smd/smd5/R0018287_Med.jpg
> (this is how you probe two BGA pads from the other side the card... standard
> mod issue - bring all your pads out, regardless of what they say.)

Yikes! Worst re-work I can remember doing was adapting several 80-pin
PQFP processors to a 84-pin PLCC footprint. Yes, we quickly made up
a "proper" daughterboard assembly, but until it was ready (and can
you say "tradeshow"?) I had to resort to DIY brain surgery.

> http://ebs.homedns.org/bilder/smd/
> is the top of this site. Move into the directories, get lost in the
> scale and time! ;O)

Neat stuff. (And as an aside, I noticed that several of the pages have
"cache preload" javascript which is loading the wrong image files, and
in consequence loading twice as many images as is necessary....pass
this along to the site owner, if you may.)

- Colin Hinz
  Toronto, Canada