There is a huge difference in a material being easily able to be bent by physical force and material sitting in a shelf being deformed by heat. I will put a 1.200 watt blowdryer on the weekend against one of my S5s sides (gotta pick one) and we will see the outcome. I will measure the heat at impact, ok?
Also note, hair dryers are supposed to flow at up to 140F/71C at least in the U.S., so that raw temperature is higher than the ambient temperatures we are discussing/expecting here. If you have access to a thermal camera that would really let you see what temperature it happens at. However, miner chips are often safe to run at up to 80C safely(though not ideal), so for certain boards it is possible that the metal frame, directly connected to solid objects that conduct heat better than air, could be hotter than ~60-70C without indicating a failure situation. I don't know about the S5, too many things to possibly calculate that. But when talking about temperatures, it is really important to specify what/where you are measuring to know what it indicates.
In my experience, ambient intake temperatures are safe up to 40C for most miners, and can be workable for some devices up to ~55C. Ambient exhaust temperatures can safely be at 49C and for some devices are workable up to ~62C. Chips are happy at 60C, safe to around 80C, and start to get dangerous/damaged somewhere over 95-100C. I haven't measured circuit boards temps enough to know their failure ranges.
Understood. They finally got someone out here from their crew to calm things down and get their reputation back.
Well, thats one way to earn a Dollar
Asicspace has not blundered. They have stolen my money, damaged my property and bent the truth in each and every conversation.
I make nothing from Asicspace, and honestly lost money on the deal I had with them, spending more money talking to my lawyer about the situation than I ended up being paid. I am the one that ended my association with them before I was paid what I expected to make. That doesn't make them criminals, and neither does this.
This is the business world. You signed a contract* and paid money. Asicspace failed to deliver as promised, thus defaulting on their side of the contract. That is not theft, that is default.
They attempted to operate your equipment per the contract and the heat it produced damaged it. They are not criminally liable for this by any law. This is a civil and contractual dispute. I know you aren't in the U.S., but do you really not have this concept of civil court versus criminal court? Theft versus contractual dispute?
You demanded your equipment be removed long before the contract had ended, and before any investigation that any court would expect could have been completed. You defaulted on the contract as well.
Both sides are in default. In my opinion you should get part of your money back, probably most, but I am in no position to judge how much and don't want to be. That's why we have courts.
* or at least, you should have if they did things right. If you didn't sign, it was still a verbal/written agreement regardless which carries some weight.
Asicspace has not blundered.
I'm not sure what you call a long network outage followed by high temperatures on a hot day, but I'm pretty sure someone screwed up somewhere. If they had criminal intent they would have taken everything from everyone and fled. But they are still there, still mining, and they still have paying customers, some happy, some unhappy. What part of that doesn't sound like a blunder?