At least it wasn't facing pins-up

One of my all time favs is the woman soldering a mainboard. Look at the iron.

root42 wrote:

One of my all time favs is the woman soldering a mainboard. Look at the iron.

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She must be a robot because I would be in pain. 😜

root42 wrote:

One of my all time favs is the woman soldering a mainboard. Look at the iron.

I prefer the other one because there's a second level to it - not only is the dude holding it by the tip, but the iron is actually a hot air station.

Anyway, this one has been going around the net, apparently it was on MSI's website:

Nprod wrote:

I prefer the other one because there's a second level to it - not only is the dude holding it by the tip, but the iron is actual […]
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root42 wrote:

One of my all time favs is the woman soldering a mainboard. Look at the iron.

I prefer the other one because there's a second level to it - not only is the dude holding it by the tip, but the iron is actually a hot air station.

Anyway, this one has been going around the net, apparently it was on MSI's website:

Ah, the old "cake frosting" method of applying thermal paste. Mmmm, cake.

I think I'm gonna go watch some baking shows on YT now.

This guy is having a hard time fixing that poor low profile GPU.

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This guy is having a hard time fixing that poor low profile GPU.

Probably he was not able to get that SMD cap off and now he just wants to poke it to death 😁

Because every Winmodem needs an upturned screw on the back covered in blobs of solder:

Not really a stock image, it's from an article in a Swedish magazine, but it's still absolutely wonderful:

Translation:
"Andreas Hedlund has checked for all possible software problems. Now he has come to the hardware. The mother modem, the very heart of the hard drive, does not work."

The picture itself is great too, measuring with a multimeter between two completely random points far from eachother on the mobo. So obviously staged 😁

I hate when my mother modem stops beating. It's so hard to get to inside the hdd! If only we had more people who cared as much as Andreas...

computerguy08 wrote:

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This guy is having a hard time fixing that poor low profile GPU.

what's going on with those power supplies 😮

kaputnik wrote:

The picture itself is great too, measuring with a multimeter between two completely random points far from eachother on the mobo. So obviously staged 😁

Obviously it looks staged, but it's completely plausible - if you're measuring voltages you need to have the black probe on a ground point somewhere (like at the exposed copper on the screw holes) and the red probe on the point you're measuring. It shouldn't matter how far they are between eachother.

oeuvre wrote:

computerguy08 wrote:

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This guy is having a hard time fixing that poor low profile GPU.

what's going on with those power supplies 😮

If you look well, you can see the cable bundle of the one power supply lies on top of the other power supply instead of being connected to each other as it first appears.

I also like the non-connected CD-ROM drive....

root42 wrote:

One of my all time favs is the woman soldering a mainboard. Look at the iron.

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Woman in my country always say, that men are not alowed to complain about pain, because woman can give birth. I guess they can stand the pain from burn too.... 😳

Just googled 'soldering stock photos' and I'm getting all kinds of crazy stuff. Best so far is a woman soldering the IDE cable to a harddrive 😀

And it seems dudes can take serious burn damage too while still looking cool 😀

Well.... The iron is not plugged in. 😁

Anyway... This is one way of making shure the noise disappear. And never comes back again.

^^ WTF. A goddamn corkscrew. Why would you even think to put that in there?

I'd like to point out that these are PROFESSIONAL creators of photos, who sell these for business use. In other words they expect people to pay money for them. If I got something that wrong in MY job, I wouldn't have it anymore. Unbelievable.

Maybe not especially hilarious, but.

Some really great photos in this thread... lol @ that corkscrew.

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Not really a stock image, it's from an article in a Swedish magazine, but it's still absolutely wonderful: […]
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Not really a stock image, it's from an article in a Swedish magazine, but it's still absolutely wonderful:

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Translation:
"Andreas Hedlund has checked for all possible software problems. Now he has come to the hardware. The mother modem, the very heart of the hard drive, does not work."

The picture itself is great too, measuring with a multimeter between two completely random points far from eachother on the mobo. So obviously staged 😁

i thought that Linus from Linus Tech Tips lived in Canada.