You really need a good setup to handle work like that. At a minimum you need stencils, a preheater, targeted hot air, a suction wand, and a drying oven so you don’t popcorn the pcbs. It’s really uncommon to find anyone who has invested in the tools and who has the experience to pull off core swaps and memory sticks in the states. It’s not really untapped, it’s more that it’s insanely expensive and regulatory issues will crop up the moment you have to take on employees. Most people with that kind of experience and capital are looking to do metal fabrication. It’s more consistent money what with the numerous businesses dealing in metal stocks and people needing parts machined, there isn’t a ton of local work in repairing electronic stuff on that level and nobody makes any of the raw materials domestically.
We seriously need Open-Hardware now more than ever.
FUN FACT: Did you know that Russian people are buying cheap Chinese ICs & sodering them onto PCBs to make their own RAMs & it even fricking POSTs.
They do this in China too… GN did a video about it for GPUs…kinda wild. This is an untapped market in the US
You really need a good setup to handle work like that. At a minimum you need stencils, a preheater, targeted hot air, a suction wand, and a drying oven so you don’t popcorn the pcbs. It’s really uncommon to find anyone who has invested in the tools and who has the experience to pull off core swaps and memory sticks in the states. It’s not really untapped, it’s more that it’s insanely expensive and regulatory issues will crop up the moment you have to take on employees. Most people with that kind of experience and capital are looking to do metal fabrication. It’s more consistent money what with the numerous businesses dealing in metal stocks and people needing parts machined, there isn’t a ton of local work in repairing electronic stuff on that level and nobody makes any of the raw materials domestically.
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