Originally Posted by archae86
As others have suggested in this thread, in this case the means employed were decidedly low-tech in this instance, including the extremely ordinary soldering pencil being used in figure 23.
Thanks for the link, archae.
Typical low-power low-voltage thermostat soldering iron... Weller to judge from the colour....
But in the picture it's being used to repair the salvaged flat cable, which is indeed a low-tech job.
Judging by the pics, the memory module itself survived pretty well unscathed.
The real trouble starts when the impact forces are so high that the memory board itself cracks and becomes unuseable, or if any of the bonding inside the memory chip packages breaks.
Then it becomes a decidedly high-tech job!
I've "talked" to undamaged FDRs, but never had to go inside one.
CJ