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Originally Posted by irocnroll
I dont see how the towel trick works other than overheating the system. Solder needs close to 400 degrees to melt. That thing needs to get pretty damn hot to fix solder connections without blowing one of the chips.
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Because the government required lead free solder at the time they were designing the 360. While other companies used higher end solder, microsuck used extremely cheap solder which became brittle and developed hairline cracks. Since it was so cheap, it melted very easily.