wiped disk - no longer bootable

[Mike Marchywka]

On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 09:08:35AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Jul 2019 19:08:21 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >That mobo was simply not repairable because my hot air tools were
> >burning the foil off the board on one side while trying to telegraph
> >enough heat to the other, inaccessable side of the board to free the
> >defective caps.
> 
> It's possible to heat both sides, unfortunately the VIAs of multilayer
> PCBs tend to be allergic to too much heat, so it's a game of pure
> chance.

Did these guys go lead free or you know the alloy/ melting point?
How hard is it to get to both sides?
I guess you could hack up the caps, maybe just with pliers,  leaving just 
wire and through the holes but that would be a huge mess. Then
just grab the remaining wire with needle nose pliers and
pull it while heating.  

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