The bench isn’t taking repairs yet: opening sometime in 2027. Until then this site is the log of the boards that come through it: no prices, no turnaround times, no commitments, only what was measured and repaired. See the case studies →
About

A micro-soldering bench, at home, in the Paris region.

BoardRepair is a one-person independent workshop specialised in component-level MacBook logic-board repair. Machines arrive by post and leave repaired: there is no storefront, no counter.

The story

Repairing what others replace.

The bench is at home, in the Paris region. There's no storefront and no drop-off: the address in the 8th arrondissement on the legal notice is a registered business address, nothing more. In practice that means no commercial rent inside your invoice, and mail-in as the only way to get a machine to us.

The MacBooks that arrive here have often already been written off elsewhere: “logic board dead, €800, or buy a new one.” In most cases that verdict mainly means nobody opened the board. Swapping a board takes twenty minutes; finding the component that failed takes hours, and costs a great deal less.

Those hours are what you're paying for: measuring, working out what gave way and why, replacing it, then leaving the machine running long enough to be sure. Not a new board.

The craft

What's on the bench.

DiagnosisBench power supply to read the current draw (5 V 0.05 A already says “missing rail or short”), a multimeter, and the schematic for the exact model open alongside. Find the missing voltage, then find out why it's missing.
Micro-solderingStereo microscope, hot-air station, flux and braid. The parts involved are often under a millimetre across: a cracked capacitor pulling a line to ground is invisible to the naked eye.
DocumentationSchematics and boardviews for your specific board. Without the schematic you replace parts on a hunch; with it, the faulty component can be named in the write-up.
VerificationThe Mac is reassembled, started, warmed up and left running for hours before it goes back. A fault that returns after an hour isn't a repair.
What we don't doiMac, Mac mini, Mac Studio and Mac Pro; screens, keyboards and batteries; data recovery from a physically dead SSD. We say so upfront, not afterwards.

The repairs, board by board.

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A repaired board, tested, ready to go back in.
A repaired board, tested, ready to go back in.