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I finally hit 500 motherboard repairs and it surprised me more than I expected
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wood.uma16d ago
Ha! 500 repairs and you're surprised? I'd be more surprised if my back didn't hurt from leaning over a bench that many times lol. But honestly, that number is just proof you've spent enough money on flux to fund a small country's GDP.
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the_jake17d ago
But at what point does the repair count stop mattering and you just start seeing the same problems on repeat?
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kai_chen217d ago
Gotta admit I used to roll my eyes at people who kept track of repair counts like that. Felt like a weird flex at first, like who cares how many boards you've reballed? But now that I'm closing in on 300 myself it just hits different. That number means you've seen almost every failure mode out there, from bad caps to corroded traces to chips that just give up. It changes how you look at a dead board when it comes in, you stop guessing and start knowing. There's something grounding about realizing the volume of stuff you've actually fixed instead of just replaced.
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