I had thought repairing modern electronic devices was going to be near impossible coming from my early experiences in the 1970s, and although a lot of the repai

I had thought repairing modern electronic devices was going to be near impossible coming from my early experiences in the 1970s, and although a lot of the repairs involve swapping a card or whole board, others are simply board-level repairs of blown capacitors, bad connectors, like charging ports, and such on things like iPads. I now have a complete microelectronics setup and I have repaired a bunch of stuff. It's my hobby, not business. The real block is access to schematics and parts. Apple doesn't release schematics legally for purchase until they are a few generations behind, so fixers buy illegal copies. Non-standard parts, like custom chips, are also controlled or not easy to find. I primarily setup my microelectronics bench to make my own stuff, not repair stuff. I owned my first cheap microscope in 1972, but my workbench scope has opened up a whole other world for me.