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I found a 1987 TV with a cold solder joint that looked like a cracked eggshell

After an hour of staring at a vertical collapse in this old Zenith, I finally spotted it under the board with a bright light - a hairline fracture around a flyback pin that was barely visible. Has anyone else dealt with those old single-sided boards where the traces lift if you breathe on them wrong?
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troy439
troy43925d ago
You ever actually fix one of those with a heat gun and a prayer?
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skylerc86
skylerc8625d agoMost Upvoted
Prayers and heat guns never did me any favors on a dead car battery.
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