You wouldn't believe what I had to do to this $2500 M1 MacBook Pro to get the user's data back...

[@sarahkatherine8458]

Apple seems to do pretty good in term of environmental friendly. The broken laptop reduced itself to raw component: Carbon.

[@MrPnew1]

Carbon sequestration

[@DJdoppIer]

Holy hell that cancer comparison was on point! I've never seen anyone able to fix an internal short that extensive. Hope the owner sent you a big tip for this job.

[@Alan_Skywalker]

Apple's fuse is even harder to break than a Nokia phone.

[@misetskyyk]

some say you can use it for the main powerline of your house

[@ewaste9658]

Shut the front door! Unreal dude

[@TheCod3r]

The true definition of keyhole surgery 😂 great job Tim, keep it up!

[@Durzel]

You’re an artist. Looking at what you were doing all I was thinking as you were cutting away more and more of the PCB was “how on Earth could this ever work”. My mind has been completely blown. 🙏

[@corel965]

Man i watched a milion of videos and im repairing myself devices etc...but this is most crazy video i ever seen in my life...great job man !!!

[@MrPnew1]

TCRS data mining . Great job Tim 🙏

[@kikihun9726]

Just apple. Why would the fuse blow when the pcb can burn and we can make money because the user have to buy another motherboard for a price of the complete laptop.

[@hack-comic]

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR EXISTING! BRINGING MY JUNKED LAPTOP TO YOU ASAP

[@viniciusvbf22]

That was more like a dentist job. Very nice! I've done that once on my own device. One of my first fixes, believe it or not. You need a Dremel and a lot of patience...

[@MrTubb3]

Amazing repair, you deserve the satisfaction of accomplishment

[@mynock250]

great video, any idea what caused this to happen or was it just apple magic.

[@remyloviton6803]

I would've probably gave up on this one, good job mate, keep digging ^^

[@marcusroth2428]

Absolutely killing it guys!

[@Slydder68]

Sweet work guy. impressive as usual.

[@macrepairphoenix]

Sheesh! Ive had these cancer boards before but I've never seen anything that bad. Amazing work!

[@konradoldmoney]

DUDE!!! this one is insane!!! you're a hoss!!!!

[@D-One]

This looked like brain surgery or something, holy heck!

[@QsTechService1]

Tim is The Terminator short killer 😮

[@NeverGiveUpYo]

Nice job on this board dude.

[@SkySky-zr3bt]

Absolutely fantastic work! I'm stunned! Even with this giant hole - it booted?

[@TCRSCircuit]

Yes without backlight.

[@beogeek]

Dude that was impresive by all standards!

[@xFil2010]

This is standard situation for new mac boards:(

[@Thvl3]

water damaged?

[@jaym5938]

What am I missing here? I've seen similar 'repairs' done by cutting through the layers; but, unlike this data recovery, those repairs had the machine working fine. HOW?? I don't understand how these boards keep working after cutting a big hole through multiple layers of traces...surely this cuts connections with many many different circuits et al? Would love a video explaining exactly what is happening and how/why this process works. Cheers!

[@sindreskjelbostad6436]

In this case the data recovery was possible due to the circut in question and the location. Its "just" the backlight circuit and its close to the edge of the board. So its in a "isolated" spot. There is no real cross board traces running through here other then large ground planes. Now if the burn was more localized and in a more precurious spot, a full repair attempt might be possible. But you would have to remove layer by layer taking pictures for referance as you go, so that you can run wire's. Now if you drill a hole straight through, you can prety much just forget about it. But if you can get away with taking off for example 9 out of 16 layers, you can essentially rebuild it layer by layer. Putting down wire's on traces that need to be reconnected, cover it with epoxy or mask, connect next layer of traces, isolate again and basically repeat until you have rebuilt every layer. This takes a lot of time, patience and experience. And if you fuck it up, best case you have to remove it and do it all over again. Worst case, you send voltage where it shouldnt go and kill the laptop forever.

[@tcifusion4497]

UR SO PATIENT....WELL DONE...

[@Sum_Tings_Wong]

Ferd... quality job none.

[@pvtglarson1]

theres nothing like dremel asmr so much so it reminds me of that amazing trip to the dentist to get a root canal. good times for sure

[@lonnygallant827]

Great work Tim!

[@haraldschmidt8828]

Why didn't the fuse do its job? Well, it's a MacBook.

[@Shuttterbugg]

Great job..Keep it up..worth the view snd like

[@larsmojo]

wow great work Tim

[@Ed31003]

and again AMAZING save

[@isipisilemonsqueezy]

and thats why i ALLWAYS use timemachine, mac books did get realy worse thees days, my m1 mac jesterday made a POP sound, it smelld like burned shit, still works, lets see how long xD

[@christopherkingston9601]

Get a stooge to take it into the apple store and say it just stopped working, can they fix it.

[@TCRSCircuit]

lool

[@galvani4987]

Awesome! Great job!

[@roybrown4944]

Beautiful just beautiful

[@bdy5678]

hello, what Dremel machine do you use ?

[@jacobskywoker1240]

Can anyone explain to me how does that notebook boot up with a giant hole in the board?

[@TCRSCircuit]

The hole removed the short to ground, and it was in a non critical area. Sure lots of traces were cut but it still worked, kinda like how people don't need appendixes, gall bladders or spleens to live.

[@jacobskywoker1240]

Wow so you could say that it is quite the stroke of luck that in that area there was nothing else but backlight

[@ali2naveed]

@@jacobskywoker1240 dude must have schematics and diagrams for the motherboard so he know whats in that area of motherboard and lets not forget the tools, knowledge and skills.

[@fusseldieb]

@@jacobskywoker1240 Basically yea. If it would be in a critical area, he would much likely be out of luck.

[@54tony379]

Is a way just cut off power to back light

[@TCRSCircuit]

Not when the layers are shorted together like this, to multiple lines.

[@stevehopwood6392]

😮 this board is a right off or can it be saved

[@TCRSCircuit]

Saved for data recovery.

[@jeffg360]

Why don’t people just backup their computers! My gawd….

[@TCRSCircuit]

Because then I don't get to dig holes

[@jeffg360]

@@TCRSCircuit your digging ditches now! 😏

[@billgates3699]

That’s not what the word “decimated” means. Not even close. Inb4 “words change”. No, people just are wrong in the same way when they don’t know what they’re talking about.

[@TCRSCircuit]

?

[@billgates3699]

It’s not.

[@sindreskjelbostad6436]

@@billgates3699 i think this fits within the definition of having removed a large proportion.

[@bobweiram6321]

Geez? You have an X-Ray machine for repairs? Don't you need a license for the equipment?

[@TCRSCircuit]

Make friends with a dentist 😀

[@Purplekeiz12GamingRoblox]

Does Portable Handheld Dental X-Ray machine works in PCB inspection??

[@TCRSCircuit]

@@Purplekeiz12GamingRoblox no

[@chasingcapsaicin]

Wait d/s uses KORAD power supplies

[@TCRSCircuit]

Haven’t had an issue with mine in 6 years

[@chasingcapsaicin]

Fk my KA3305D second channel went 33.75V 10+amp melting wires and tossing sparks, puts out >30v ~3a when powered but not soft switched on@@TCRSCircuit

[@chasingcapsaicin]

set to 22v3a

[@InXsense]

This is not a repair, its only a data save... in a normal world it would be as simple as swap the hard disk, ssd, or nvme to an usb enclosure.

[@elgatostudio7219]

this don't work on apple macbook m1 or later. Ths old models have nvme on motherboard. If this is possible nobody will do it. Apple has nvme on their soc which is M1. So, it is very hard to resolder on to new one good working soc.

[@fusseldieb]

@@elgatostudio7219 Apple with their "rEpAiRaBiLitY" speech. It's hell.

[@bartoszk2947]

OMG!!!

[@Shinika01]

epic one! GG