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Wisdomshow WDS-420, First Blood

February 13, 2026 — Nazim

Once upon a time, the company that contracts me decided to speed up my work and gifted me a BGA rework workstation. But while that BGA station was in transit, an evil witch cursed it, and instead of turning on nicely, it began emitting a horrible sound like an angle grinder cutting through a stainless steel plane. Then I discovered a multitude of Chinese factories that do BGA soldering in-house, and the station sat quietly on a shelf until the mighty hero decided to fix it...

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