On Feb 8, 2010, at 10:53 AM, Jonas Ulrich wrote:

Yeah it does sound stupid, however the pennies are taped together VERY well, and are taped to the surface VERY well, unfortunately the problem is back so I'm thinking of trying to reflow the solder on that chip. Any ideas of how
to do this?


The most common methods are using heat guns (specialized ones used for assembling surface mount devices to start with) and using an oven.

Then there's the tea candle method...

<http://geektechnique.org/projectlab/726/diy-obsolete-ibook-logic-board-repair >


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