{"id":10,"date":"2008-07-09T05:36:34","date_gmt":"2008-07-09T12:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geniusblog.zokul.com\/2008\/07\/09\/bad-apples\/"},"modified":"2013-01-13T03:34:21","modified_gmt":"2013-01-13T10:34:21","slug":"bad-apples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/?p=10","title":{"rendered":"bad apples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i&#8217;ve seen a few defective apple ibooks recently &#8230; and had to solder one last week: there&#8217;s a little chip with 28 pins on the bottom of the logic board, the quality of the solder-job was so bad or the heat so intense that one pin (#28) came loose<\/p>\n<p>instead of putting shims between the case and the chip i would recommend soldering: the shim pushes the chip onto the logicboard but not the pins &#8211; unless you make a shim with a hollow center &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>anyways you need a steady hand, a good magifying glass but no extra solder! just let things flow a bit, takes only a sec or two per pin, but it&#8217;s a tedious job cause everything is so small!<\/p>\n<p>some pics etc at www.coreyarnold.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i&#8217;ve seen a few defective apple ibooks recently &#8230; and had to solder one last week: there&#8217;s a little chip with 28 pins on the bottom of the logic board, the quality of the solder-job was so bad or the heat so intense that one pin (#28) came loose instead of putting shims between the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208,"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zokul.com\/zokulblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}