[kwlug-disc] Where to fix an Acer A500 tablet?

[B. S.]

Or just look up heat gun on wikipedia and home depot.

Mind you ... didn't know they could melt solder!

And ... I'd bet someone here has one, and I believe there's been at least one thread in the last couple years about baking boards to reflow solder and fix cold joints.

They'd probably even be willing to bring their gun to a meeting, and you'd soon have an audience ...

SJK will have stoves to hand, too!

Just say you're going out to a baking party tonight?

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On Sat, 12/6/14, Gordon Dey <gordon.dey at happydeys.ca> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Where to fix an Acer A500 tablet?
 To: "KWLUG discussion" <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org>
 Received: Saturday, December 6, 2014, 11:00 PM
 
 On 14-12-06 08:30 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
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 > or using a heat gun (don't know what that is).
 
 A heat gun is an industrial version of a home hair-dryer. Except the intent is careful control of air currents that re hot enough to melt solder on a circuit board, or to peel old paint off of furniture.
 
 Expensive heat guns come with an array of component-shape-specific air-dams to make sure that components are shielded from the heat while melting the solder.
 
 Does that help?
 Gord