Quote from: daclayman on May 09, 2014, 06:16:25 AM

Quote from: Phoenix1969 on May 09, 2014, 04:00:39 AM

Those caps look as if they didn't get much flux, and knocked-off fairly easy, and clean. Most of The caps in the pics look like they would solder right back on. Most of the components which came loose look re-usable even, although some look like garbage. The boards are pretty beefy, and the solder points are large. I bet a good portion of the PCB's could be fixed with minimal effort, while others are not.
Someone should head up a group buy effort, and hire a bulk repair shop to whip them out. once they see how simple the repairs actually are, it may be worth the effort... just sayin'.
some place like this.... http://sybesmas.com/site/ could make easy work of a stack of those boards

I live about 40 miles away from this place. Never seen the place, but I'm pretty sure they're using a lot of temp agency for rework jobs. In this area, some businesses would spend 10 cents to save a nickel. I did some solder work recently near here. I'm not saying that you don't have a good idea, I just wouldn't send it to SW Michigan.

Yeah, was just an example... If it were me, I'd have been to Radio shack getting supplies to try the moment I found out they didn't want them back for RMA... I actually have a "magic" cold heat pen that would be perfect for this job like this...
I highly recommend it for beginners. http://science.howstuffworks.com/cold-heat.htm
Hell, I bet I could just lay one of those caps back in its place, wet with flux and use a crude butane iron to touch that solder with and be done.
But the cold heat pen is really quick and easy, clean, and way safer.
Hope I inspired someone is all... Tongue

its also easy to test a capacitor or resistor for viability. http://www.ehow.com/how_7800310_check-defective-resistor-capacitor.html
you can get equivalent parts cheap right at radio shack for the bad ones.

Vrms.... good luck. I'd trash those pcb's probably, but you may find a source and the skill... that's where I'd "draw the line" personally

*On a different note tho... the way those came loose so easily, even wrapped tightly in bubble-wrap leads me to logically deduct two distinct Possible causes...
1. The soldering points were not done properly... like a shortage of flux or not enough heat.
---OR ---
2. The component connections became brittle after being used at high temperature for an extended period of time.

But... then we have the hostname reports saturn-NNN posted in the forum, which pretty much puts it into ~~possibility~~ fact 2, with the added possibility of #1 still.
Which could only mean one thing in my mind... they pulled all that equipment off the shelf at Boden to make SuperJupiters. The facts just say so.