I am no follower of Fashion (haha). But the consumer also decides what stays and what not. VHS won, Betamax lost. Blu-Ray won, HD DVD lost. But I heard that in our Country, maybe even in whole Europe DVD-T2 will come in 2017. So DVD-T ends in 2017.

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Hi Robert

Although I agree with you, there is still no guarantee about this conclusion. If you also read the article Gerald suggested below, or if you already have seen it, there is a clear description there that this glue changes its color over time and comes to its worst condition when it is dark brown, almost black.
Now compare this with the relevant photo of my case. (This was an almost brand new unit). You will see that it had not even turned in brown color. It was still in a golden like coloring which means that it was in a premature stage, far earlier than its dangerous one.
Nevertheless it revealed the problem much earlier than expected (at least under the light of this thought you expressed). That’s why, in my opinion, it is not to be trusted and left there in the PCBs waiting its time to cause an explosion.
About its removal, I have always been trying it without heating the relevant area but I will copy your method since it seems to make things much easier than mine.

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Thank you Humberto. Yes, I think that I was lucky this time...Otherwise I sould be waiting for long enough until a new PWM controller I.C comes from abroad after ordering it...

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Excellent find, Gerald! Thanks.

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But the glue usually doesn't pose a problem until several years after the device has been operating. Anyway, the glue is a lot easier to remove after it's heated up first. Most of the time the heat will make old hard glue softer, and easier to remove.

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I have just finished reading it Gerald. Well, although unbelievable, it’s a fact. And the problem is that they keep on using it…Amazing!
Thanks a lot Gerald.

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Hello Beh

Thank you too for your supporting comment.

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Hello Parasuraman

Thank you too for your supporting comment. Yes this is our job. To bring dead equipment back in life. This looked miraculous to me right from my childhood, when a radio-technician came in our home to repair our ancient radio with those 90V huge BEREC batteries it used… Yes I remember it like it happened yesterday…And I believe that I was at the age of seven years old. Perhaps this event had sealed my professional future…

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Thank you too Augustin.

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