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<wpwrak>
whitequark: you could start a CNC preemptive repair service :) team up with an importer and reseller, then fix the critters before selling them
<whitequark>
mmm
<whitequark>
i'm not sure it's worth the hassle
<wpwrak>
you mean that most of the critters don't fail ? or that people wouldn't pay for a - probably still comparably cheap - device that doesn't go up in flames ?
<whitequark>
i mean it's a lot of work
<whitequark>
logistics, agreements with suppliers, marketing...
<wpwrak>
maybe look if there's any large reseller in .eu, then contact them to see if they think that's a problem they'd like to have solved
<whitequark>
I think there aren't any resellers, they just ship directly from China
<whitequark>
why let someone else take a cut if you can sell it directly on ebay?
<whitequark>
hm, there are some resellers, it seems
<whitequark>
holy fuck
<whitequark>
a russian reseller sells it for over 5x the price i bought it at
<wpwrak>
does that smell like opportunity ? :)
<whitequark>
hmm
<whitequark>
well, it does
<whitequark>
toolmaking is a pretty high-margin field in general
<wpwrak>
take cheap but dodgy china stuff, add indestructible russian engineering, own the world :)
<wpwrak>
i'd solder them. but feel free to smash ;-)
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<mooseboobs>
Anyone know where I could find an example pcb layout for a smartphone (preferably with a MTK chipset) ?
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<DocScrutinizer05>
smashing rivets into PCB is a nasty thing and tends to not yield good results
<DocScrutinizer05>
may sound weird but the FR4/whatever is too brittle and neither elastic nor strong enough
<DocScrutinizer05>
and you generally damage copper plating in 75% of cases
<DocScrutinizer05>
you'll end up with rivets that are loose and don't have contact despite looking perfect
<DocScrutinizer05>
depending on your tools to smash the rivets, you even may deform the PCB so it is a 1.2mm at and around the rivet when it originally been 0.8mm
<DocScrutinizer05>
some methods to smash rivets make the rivet create enormous forces radially to rivet's cylinder
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<wpwrak>
so, better to use nails, and no hammer
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<apelete>
Hi larsc
<apelete>
are you there ?
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<whitequark>
DocScrutinizer05: I see
<whitequark>
rivets did look fishy to me, there should have been a reason almost no one ever uses those