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Beautiful illustrations!

Almost 30 years old. Old good times without BGAs and modern barely visible components. While some basics are still applicable the modern problems are not covered at all.

It's great for working on vintage equipment, stuff that might need (and warrant) that kind of repair. Less so if you run a cell phone repair shop.

Missing: how to solder a wire to the thermal pad on the bottom side of an IC. Assume there are components on the back side.

Watch the PACE videos as well, they’re on YouTube and they also cover how to remove conformal coating and using different tools.