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Board-level soldering, and devices that don't exist until we build them

Plenty of shops will tell you board-level work isn't worth doing. We have a full rework bench and the hands to use it — from re-soldering a snapped cable to surface-mount and BGA work — and if the thing you need doesn't exist, we can design and build it.

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Sound familiar?

  • Broken plugs, ports, sockets and cables
  • A drone that's had a hard landing — connectors, motors, wiring, charging
  • A board that needs component-level fault-finding
  • Surface-mount (SMD) or BGA rework, including reflows
  • A snapped USB stick with your files on it
  • A cable you need that nobody sells
  • Something old or irreplaceable that's stopped working
  • A device you need that doesn't exist yet

Pricing

USB Stick Port Repair

From $79

The classic — snapped clean off, files still on the board. From $79 for basic solder work; more where board tracks need repairing. Somehow it's always a school teacher's.

Everything Else

Quoted after diagnosis

Diagnosis is charged, and it buys you a straight answer: what's wrong, what it costs to fix, and whether it's worth fixing at all.

What the Work Looks Like

A hand holding a soldering iron and solder wire over the opened circuit board of a laptop power adapter on the workbench
A laptop charger, opened and repaired rather than replaced. Most places won't take the lid off one of these.
The inside of a drone on the workbench, shell opened to show the flight board with motor wiring hand-soldered to it
Inside a drone on the bench — every motor wire re-soldered to the flight board. Hard landings usually break less than they look like they did.
A rebuilt data cable plug held in hand, the new connector overmoulded so it looks factory-made
The customer's dog ate this cable — no replacement existed, so we rebuilt it, pin by pin from a hand-drawn pinout. You'd never pick which end is ours.
A custom-made coaxial cable with a gold BNC connector and an N-type adapter, coiled on the bench mat
A custom coax lead, made to order — the right connectors, the right length, instead of the closest thing on a peg hook.
A remote control circuit board repaired with fine jumper wires soldered in to rebuild every broken track to the chip
Track rebuilding at its smallest: a remote so corroded that every trace to the chip was re-run by hand with jumper wire.

Book It in at Either Store

The advanced bench work — the soldering, the rework, the custom builds — happens at Victoria Point, because that's where the owner's bench is and he does most of it himself. But Alexandra Hills books these jobs in and hands them back all the time: drop off and pick up at whichever store suits you, and the job makes the trip instead of you.

Cables — Repaired, and Made to Order

Basic soldering — plugs, ports, broken joints — is the everyday stuff. And when the cable you need doesn't exist in a shop, we make it: custom cables built to order for the length, connectors and job you actually have, not the closest thing on a peg hook. The bench also handles the work most shops send away or turn away: surface-mount component replacement, reflows, and BGA rework. If it has a circuit board, it's probably fixable here.

Drones Welcome Too

A drone that's had a hard landing isn't automatically a write-off. Broken connectors, damaged wiring, motor and charging faults all come through this bench, and it gets the same deal as everything else here: diagnosed first, quoted before any work, and a straight answer if replacing it really is the better spend.

The Work Other Shops Send to a Specialist — We're That Specialist

Most repair shops don't attempt board-level micro-soldering at all — it's not a failure on their part, it just needs a different bench: a microscope, the right iron, and someone trained on it. So when a job needs it, they refer it out. We're one of the places that referral goes. A recent example: an FPC connector replacement on a Samsung phone mainboard — one of the tiny sockets the flexible ribbon cables clip into, a few millimetres across — after three other phone shops had already passed it on elsewhere. It came to our bench and went home working. If somewhere else has told you they can't do a repair, ask if they know someone who can. There's a good chance it's us.

Custom Electronics, Designed and Built

Need a device that doesn't exist? We design and build one-off electronics around Arduino, Raspberry Pi and ESP32 — with colour touchscreens, menus, sensors, whatever the job calls for. Solving a real need with a purpose-built device is genuinely the owner's favourite kind of job, so bring us the problem rather than a spec: describing what you want it to do is enough to start.

A Straight Answer Before Any Money Changes Hands

Diagnosis is charged, and here's the deal that comes with it: if we can't fix it, it can't be fixed — or it isn't economical to. When a repair costs more than a replacement, we'll tell you so and advise against the job, even though that talks us out of work. We'd rather you trust the next quote.

When It's Priceless Rather Than Valuable

Some things fail the economics test and still deserve fixing. A recent favourite: an animated Christmas decoration — characters, music, the lot — that had belonged to a customer's late mother, direct-wired for 110V with half its motors gone. It got a full AC-to-DC conversion, new motors and new lights, and it runs again every December. On paper it wasn't worth the cost. It was worth every cent. If something matters to you, we'll give you the real price and let you make that call — no judgement either way.