I'll keep this thread open in case anyone comes up with another candidate for a QFP G3 donor!

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I didn't think there were any QFP G3s. I'm pretty sure they're all BGA, but I've been wrong before...

for me, BGAs are easier to work with than QFPs. the line up better when reworking. lol. when the balls are melted, it almost pulls right in to exact alignment.

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Techknight, what equipment/method are you using to solder BGAs and how big have you gone?

I have this Apple TV (original) which is just begging to have its four BGA DDR2 memory chips replaced with larger capacity chips. Going from 256MB to 512MB would make a huge difference in teh amount of disk swap needed when running various flavors of Linux on the thing.

I even have the new memory chips in hand. I don't know when I'll ever have time to work on it, but in the mean time I collect ideas for home BGA soldering. I've been considering building a toaster oven with a relay, thermocouple and microcontroller so I can do temperature profiles.