Ghetto electronics repair

After hearing that his video card might be repairable by heating it up to reflow it, this user did just that. He stripped it down and . It’s amazing how often this type of hackish repair works. We’ve heard of people using , tossing video cards in oven,s and to get it hot enough to reflow itself. Why even bother with controlled temperatures and exact measurements? What other crazy fixes have you had to employ? We had a Playstation that only worked upside down.