Hagdos
It isn’t American, and it doesn’t taste like shit.
The founder, Teun van der Keuken, is a Dutch guy. He started this journey with sueing himself before a Dutch judge, on account of participating in slave labour (by buying chocolate in a supermarket, knowing that it’s likely produced by slave labour)
The same worries exist here too though. The blood bank isn’t allowed to pay you for your plasma, but it’s absolutely a for-profit organisation that runs on selling your plasma to pharmaceutical companies.
I still believe it’s a good thing to donate, but sometimes it feels a little icky that there’s also a businessmodel around it
Source of one of my favourite songs: https://youtu.be/_zagM1Memfw?feature=shared
Very good movie too
IR bottom heaters are usually not strong enough for reballing. They’re for boards that are hard to solder, because there’s a lot of copper or a heatsink for example.
The bottom heater preheats the whole board, not to soldering temperatures but enough to make soldering a lot easier.