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Re:Car allergic to vanilla ice cream by Paul-Craft on Thursday September 21, 2023 @10:26AM (#37598110)
What even is the theory on how that could possibly work? I believe you, it's just that I don't have any mental model of how baking a circuit board makes it work right for a year, and how it keeps working to fix the issue.
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Re:Car allergic to vanilla ice cream by brabarossa on Thursday September 21, 2023 @11:50AM (#37599463)
The theory is that 'baking" it could reflow a bad solder joint and fix it. A popular fix of last resort.
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Re:Car allergic to vanilla ice cream by Paul-Craft on Thursday September 21, 2023 @05:56PM (#37604962)
I get that that could work and might solve the problem entirely. What I don't get is why you'd ever have to do that every few months.
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Re:Car allergic to vanilla ice cream by mrguyorama on Thursday September 21, 2023 @06:16PM (#37605179)
Laser printers have parts that can get very hot. If their "baking" reflowed the parts, but just barely, maybe those hot parts would just cause the exact same problem all over again.
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Re:Car allergic to vanilla ice cream by Paul-Craft on Friday September 22, 2023 @12:44PM (#37614282)
Ah! There we go! That was what I was missing. Thanks. It all makes sense now.
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