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I am not sure if you are going to be able to find what you are looking for. I did a little research when mine went YLOD and came to the conclusion that most of the fixes were just short term patches. The biggest thing they are good for is getting your PS3 to work long enough to get some saves off the hard drive if you need them. A few months down the line it seems like it will happen again. I decided to just buy a new one. Good luck.
Find a shop local if you can, I used FavGeek in Decatur, Al and they have a re-flow machine and they re-flowed mine and cleaned it out for $55.
I have a fat 60.
No there is a permanent fix. You were confusing the things you researched or didn't understand it properly and most people make this same mistake.
A reball is the permanent fix. The temporary fix is the reflow. The reflow (using the bake in an oven or heat gun method) simply reflows the old, stock solder to close the gaps and cracks that have formed via expansion and contraction with heat over the time.
Reballing entails desoldering the entire BGA chips off the board. Cleaning off all the original solder, and replacing it with balls of new, modern, and high quality solder that is far superior to the original stuff that was cheap, lead-free, and cracks over time.
I bought new solder balls, the reballing stencil, and used a friend's company's engineering equipment to reball.
1. reball isn't forever either
2. for the price you could just get a slim from sony