A2141 No Power From Dust, Signature Failure on SSD Buck Regulator

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-Tools we Use
-Soldering
I currently Use 3 different handles, standard, micro-pencil and micro tweezers.
I will say having the standard handle and micro pencil is a necessity and the tweezers
are intermittently useful but not necessary.
Tip choice is largely personal preference, unless its conical.
I use bevel or chisel tips for standard handle and knife tip for micro pencil, standard ones for the tweezers.
Fume Extractor- Not available on amazon, but we use a Quick 6102A1 (Dual Port) The single port is the 6101a1, don't cheap out on your health!
I believe there are some vendors in the US on eBay for these or you could order on ali express Union repair etc.
Solder fumes are bad to breath, get a good fume extractor lest ye get the cancer!
amzn.to/4aumQa9 - Hakko FX951, Single input soldering station with standard sized handle (FM-2027) and stand
amzn.to/3WTAtgb - Hakko C1551 Dual Port Soldering Station (FM-203) Station Only
amzn.to/3WUQZMP - Hakko FM2032 Micro Pencil, my most used iron by far.
amzn.to/45bKcAF - Hakko Micro tweezer+stand+tips
amzn.to/3R0AeMp - Quick 861DW Hot Air Station, Makes things hot , reliable, I like angled nozzles.
amzn.to/3WUv2NP - AMScope SM-6T-FR Microscope head we use with a boom arm. I like the boom arm, some people don't, this is a personally preference.
If you have a shaky table, you should get a stationary non boom arm mount.
amzn.to/4bycmbe - Barlow .5 lens. double your working distance , halves magnification.
Working under a microscope is frustration without a Barlow lens.
amzn.to/3KjWRaI - AmTech NC-559-V2-TF, The Goat of flux. Smells of oranges.
-Testing
amzn.to/3WUQZMP - Siglent SDM 3045X Benchtop multimeter, this is not really necessary and a hand held meter is fine for most applications.
This benchtop supply makes it easy to have an overlay in OBS and has some fun features.
amzn.to/3UTgzPM -Fluke 117 Handheld multimeter True RMS. This will work forever and this is what I used before using the Siglent.
I still use this for larger items that cant go on the table.
amzn.to/44XCPfJ - General USB C amp meter, if I didn't need my meter to show on my computer screen, Id use this, its 10$ and works great.
amzn.to/44WAVfx - Fancy USB C amp meter, has software with fun things like graphs, you can see it on your computer screen.
amzn.to/4bR2Yiu - Thermal Camera, the amount of things this makes faster or possible to fix is astounding.
For anyone fixing board professionally.
-Misc.
amzn.to/3KjVzMU - Large Heating Mat, great for MacBook LCD only and many other repairs.
-Tweezers
amzn.to/3V2nnuy - Dumont 5 tweezers, the fanciest of tweezers, I use these for only microwork, great for jumper wires and other fine work.
amzn.to/3QXTha1 - Hakko curved tweezers, great general purpose fine point curved tweezers.
amzn.to/44VvvBq- Hakko straight tweezers, like above, but straight.

[@dzoks-e7n]

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[@jamesbailey4913]

Clean Setup dude; Me likey; Thanks for your time;

[@SURGE101]

Just found your channel and subbed, really enjoyed watching the video. Thanks for the share

[@morethanafix]

Awesome to hear, thank you!

[@alex-dn9to]

I really don’t think apple is trying to be funny haha.. I think this narrative where apple is “purposely designing the products the way they do because they intentionally want them to be unrepairable” is really worn out. They design their products that way for many different reasons. They are trying to make quality, long lasting products and for the most part, they do.. there may be some engineering mistakes and deficiencies but what company isn’t?

[@morethanafix]

Very fair point, my comment there was *mostly* a joke. Apple is certainly not the only one guilty of these sorts of questionable design decisions. In any case, we are going for a see something say something approach. Windows board repairs are far less common for us, and the MacBook board is on my bench, so I must complain about the MacBook. Ironically; Macs also have much better availability for schematics and Broadview files. Apple doesn't share this, they just happen to be available, by this fact there is simply more complex issues that can be resolved on macs compared to another device without this map of the board available. This particular problem of dust killing MacBook's is very long running, they could essentially just make a finer mesh for the air intake and this sort of issue would probably occur 90% less often. About half of the MacBook's we see for board repair fail from dust on the bottom sides of the board near the air intake. The overall build quality of macs is certainly great and I will see quite expensive windows machines in for stuff like ripped off screen backplate because of cheap plastic housing brass screw threads; cheap build quality on 1000$+ gaming laptops :( . But almost never with failing boards from dust. There are certainly awful windows machines too with high side mosfets shorts where the CPU dies rendering it practically not fixable, but then the drive is removable. There are also great windows machines build quality, reliability and performance for cost alike. I can probably ramble about this stuff for a very long time. There is a lot of give and take. There are bad and good design cases for all OEMS, some flaws are worse than others. In any case, all of these manufacturers need to be pressured or nothing will change, this person would have paid well over twice what we charge for repair at the apple store and their data would have been lost. They would basically be in the same scenario with any other OEM too, these companies all want the consumer to go buy a new computer, not fix their current one.