- So this machine can repair OLED screens
that have bad lines in them using a laser.
So this is the future of OLED repair.
This is super high tech.
Brand new machine, barely hit the market.
(technician speaks foreign language)
What they're doing here is looking
for broken traces in the OLED construction.
- These are broken ones. - And these are formed
with a laser originally at the factory, right?
So we're using the same laser they use to construct these
when they cut this out of a big sheet of OLED.
We're gonna use the same laser to fix them.
We just know it's a laser,
and it's not like a normal laser.
So it can go through the first layer of the OLED.
- That's incredible. - But it would stop
in the middle, you know, like where you have the...
You have a good idea where the broken line is,
but you still have to find it.
- I mean, it's still a manual repair process at end of it.
- [Technician] This is the first generation.
- [Scotty] Right, of course.
So it's gonna get better,
and it's gonna get better at lightning speed here.
- You have to make sure first that the flex is okay.
- Right, sure, of course. - 'Cause sometimes,
the flex is broken, it's because the same problem
'cause it's the same data lines.
So you have to make sure-
- But that one's easier to fix.
We already know how to fix that.
- And if we can't fix, the last step is to change the flex.
- Oh, of course.
You don't have to remove anything,
except maybe the front glass.
So one of the things here is that you're doing this
with the screen on.
- With the screen on. - Which is crazy.
One, you know where the issue is,
and then, two, you know when you fixed it.
It will literally change in front of your eyes,
which is magic.
- It's like changing the lamp
with the electricity still working.
- Yeah, exactly, exactly with the switch on.
- [Technician] You see you find some of line broken.
- [Scotty] Oh my God, okay.
- So, this machine is used
when you don't have to fix the OLED panel.
You just have to change the flex.
So just you tear off the flex,
then you will press a new one.
With press, I have to correct the flex with the glass.
- [Scotty] Yep, line it up.
(technicians chatter)
Very nice.
Beautiful.
- So this is the hard OLED one.
The hard OLED is easy to fix
because we don't have this kind
when it's bonding, you know.
It's not a flexible.
If the glass is 100% okay,
we don't see any water damage or something,
we just change the flex and it works.
- And then the ACF is anisotropic conductive film.
I use that in the RFID video.
It's a very interesting adhesive
that when you bond it using heat and pressure,
it only conducts in the vertical direction
using really microscopic balls of metal.
It's very, very cool.
You put ACF down across all of the pins,
and then when you bond it,
you don't have to worry about it conducting between pins.
It only conducts vertically between the two.
It's such a clever technology.
- [Technician] So this is the hard one,
and this is the soft one.
The soft one, which we actually can bend.
The hard one, the bending flex point has to be in the front.
So we have to attach the flex in the front,
and then bend it to the other side.
So the actual part which is bending over,
it's just the flex.
And then when you put it like that,
these two edges very easy to get dirty
or to get water damage or to get broken,
but the soft one, the actual glass
like bending over to the other side,
you don't have the edges
because they can cut it nicely.
With the hard one, you have to cut it sharp like.
So it's two different like technologies.
You can look on the edges, you know.
(air whooshes)
- [Scotty] Basically we're just waiting
for that line to go away.
It's just repairing trace by trace by trace
until that line disappears.
- We have two side of the flex.
Maybe it's broken here,
so we try to repair it here, but no luck.
To reach another side,
we have to take off the glass, and then we'll try again.
- So this process is pretty standard.
We see this in the markets all the time.
That's a hot pad with some suction to hold the glass down.
And then they just saw between the covered glass
and the OLED screen with a very thin metal wire,
a steel wire.
Right now, he's just removing the OCA,
the optically clear adhesive.
It's the adhesive that binds the glass
to the front of the OLED screen,
and it's just optically clear means
that it has the same like defraction index as the glass,
so you can't see it.
Oh, there we go.
Oh, there it is.
(team claps)
- Nice, nice, nice. - That's pretty much
like magic. (laughs)
That's unbelievable.
- And now you can bend the flex,
and the the line won't come back.
So the flex was broken in this point, and then we fixed it.
Now, even you press, the problem won't come back
'cause we fixed the actual lines
that's inside the LCD panel, - That's so crazy.
- You know? - That's so crazy.
- It's so crazy.
- So this is not the part that's bonded on?
- No.
- It's actually the OLED itself.
- The OLED panel itself.
- And that's what has the problem.
- Yeah. - You were telling me
last night this is also part of the manufacturing process.
- Part of the manufacturing. - So explain that part.
- The real OLED is like big sheets, you know, of-
- Like television size.
- Yeah, television size, even bigger.
And then they have like this kind of laser,
but, of course, it's automatic like, you know,
not by hand, and you just have to cut the glass by laser,
and that's it, but the drawing.
- But they're actually drawing traces
- By this kind of- - In the OLED substrate.
- With this kind of laser. - With this laser.
And so this laser is really just replicating
what they do when they first make the OLED.
- Yeah, so just retrace.
- It's so smart.
This is what I love about (indistinct) and (indistinct).
I love about the cell phone markets
and the cell phone repairing industry.
It's so innovative.
There's just everybody's on this mission
to fix more phones, fix more screens,
come up with better ways, cheaper ways of doing things.
You're in the LCD business.
What's your impression after seeing this?
- This is the last problem, which we can't repair,
you know, 'til last year,
and this is when this machine got out.
We officially can fix any problem in LCD,
you know, with lines
- That's crazy. - Except when it's broken,
we fix anything.
- How many screens are there out there like this
that have this problem?
- Lots of screens, which everybody like threw away,
you know, 'cause it's line you cannot fix.
Sometimes they will change the flex,
the line will go, but sometimes they will change the flex,
and line still on the screen,
so they will just throw it away.
- How much money are people with this machine gonna make?
- Lots of money?
- (laughs) Yeah, I think so. - A lot of money.
- I think this machine pretty much prints money
at this point?
- You basically take screen like, which no one can fix,
and you fix it by yourself,
but the thing is like after you fix it,
we put the new glass on it, and nobody will know anything.
- Well and it's not a problem.
It's as good as new. - It's not problem.
This is water damage.
It's a kind of corrosion, you know?
- Yeah, sure. - So the line's
inside the glass.
- [Scotty] Well, that doesn't look fixed.
- [Technician] It just doesn't look that beautiful,
but it's fixed.
It's like when you're welding,
it's look like a black and not beautiful,
but it's welded
- As long as it sticks.
- [Technician] This one is the laser original lines.
This one, when he draw the laser.
You see? - Oh, right there.
- Yeah, this point. - Yeah, okay.
- [Technician] This point, so when you draw the laser,
because this one is made of copper,
so it would become like kind of black
- [Scotty] Like oxidized or something.
- Dark.
When you got the problem,
the first thing you have to do is you have to check
that it's not broken and it's look like new.
You have to take out the backside and check for the glass
if you have water damage.
If you have water damage,
you can just check with this machine.
You don't have to fix.
When you saw there is water damage,
you will fix it, of course.
If there is no water damage,
it means this glass is 100% okay.
You just have to change the flex.
So, before we have this machine, we just change the flex.
Maybe we have 100 piece.
We just change 100 piece.
After this, we have maybe 80 pieces working,
and the rest we can fix.
Just take out the flex and move to the new LCD, yeah,
but now, we don't have to change.
We can look. - You just inspect it.
- [Technician] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So now maybe 100 screens, we can fix 100.
- And this is how you make money
in the cell phone repair business,
not by changing screens one by one,
by being able to repair 100 out of 100 screens you touch.
The guys that do screen refurbishing,
they make real money.
- That one when we fixed right now,
this panel is actually inside.
It's the middle layer.
Before we had these machines,
we have to take everything off,
and then the screen is like become like it's original one,
but we already changed the glass.
We already changed...
We don't really need to change the glass,
but we don't have another option.
We have to take it off.
But now, when we don't have to change the flex anymore,
we just take out this little bit, you know,
just the corner.
We fix it, put it again, and it's like new.
- This is magical technology.
It's gonna be a real game changer for screen refurbishing.
To be clear, screen refurbishing is a big, big business.
- Industry.
- This is gonna change things a lot.
The people that have these machines now
are gonna make a lot of money
in the next, I don't know, six months,
something like that. - Maybe.
When we go smaller, I think it will also affect the quality
of the machine.
Go weaker and 'cause you cut the cost,
and you make each fit.
- Of course, so then we'll see variety
and quality of repairs. - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So I mean you see the NG, yeah?
- Yeah. - This is broken screen,
but we still can use the flex on it
because the flex is okay.
So we can take two screen.
One of them, the LCD panel is broken,
and another one, the flex is broken.
We just swap it, and we have one working
without any cost.
You don't have to buy the new flex
because you can take from this one, from the broken one.
- If you would like one of these machines,
you should talk to my friend Xuan here
of the infamous Tool Brothers.
You've been in other videos.
- Yes, yes. - And you can hook people up
with one of these machines. - Yes, I can.
I have, I have, yes.
- How much does one of these cost?
- 85,000, yeah.
- 85,000 RMB,
so like 15,000 USD. (cash register dings)
So I will put your contact information
down in the video description,
and you can go talk to him if you want one.
He's a really good guy.
I believe in him.
I've known him for years and years.
Speaks some English,
and he's a total hustler. (Xuan laughs)
So he'll hook you up.
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