I finally cleaned out my old repair shop's storage unit from before 2020.

Back then, I had maybe two bins of random, mostly repairable boards from TVs and monitors. Now, after four years of people just replacing stuff, it's like eight bins full of identical, newer boards that are just dead. The shift from 'this capacitor blew' to 'the whole BGA package is cooked' is insane. Has anyone else's scrap pile just completely changed character?

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quinn_burns24d ago

Wait, did you mean to say the newer boards are from before 2020? Because the post says the storage is from before 2020, but the eight bins are newer boards from the last four years. That's the whole point, the scrap changed after 2020 when everything became less repairable.

jadej5025d ago

Started selling the newer boards for parts to hobbyists, got way more interest than expected.

thomas_sanchez25d ago

Makes sense, people love to tinker. Those are technically older boards though, not the newest models.