Lately I've been watching some laptop repairs videos on youtube and I'm really interested to get into this hobby. Any recommendation where to start?
>>108721608I do. Practice makes perfect and a good place to start is getting old broken laptops from ebay / friends / junkyard sales and trying to salvage them.
Even if the laptop is damaged beyond repair you can still learn how to remove all working parts like ram, battery, screen etc to build up a spares inventory
>>108721921>>108721942Any tips on how to read schematics and find the faulty parts?
>>108721608>repairdo you mean replacing parts like RAM or soldering? yes to the former and fuck no to the latter
>>108721608you need to be autistic to trace individual electronic components on the circuit board schematics. unplugging something and plugging it in to replace it is easy though. screen swaps, keyboard replacements, entire motherboard swaps, ssd, battery, etc are easily worth the minimal effort they take.
>>108722701There's probably 25 million uncut full length videos of repair shops doing this on youtube. Likely every single motherboard ever made for the past 50 years has some guy on youtube testing a faulty board. And even if they don't most of the skills are transferable, I have none of the tech and even I know the basics now just from being bored and watching repair techs. The biggest bar to entry is actually buying all the tools and committing enough time to make it worth the initial investment.
>>108726069Which channels do you usually watch? I like Sorin and Adamant (but Adamant is a bit clearer for beginners like me).
>>108722701You're going to need to pay indian or indonesian technicians on ad riddled forums $20 for a single schematic