Breathing life into the 360

Well I am trying to turn around some Xbox 360's with the RROD or RLOD, whatever you'd like to call them.  Anyway right now I am 1 for 2.  I bought the first unit for $60 from a kid off of Craigslist.  The exterior was in decent condition, some spilled cola on the side and little nicks and scratches along the case.  This one I was able to fix, with many of the vids on the net.  The following pics were taken with my cell phone.
 
Unfortunately you can't see it, but the bottom of the case on both sides has been scuffed pretty badly, and there is a noticeable stain on the top of the unit.  I will eventually mod this unit, though I am unsure of what color/design etc.
 
As you can see the second step was making a big mess all over my wife's new kitchen table.  Being that this was my first attempt at fixing a unit I wanted to make sure I had plenty of light as well as the laptop handy in case I missed anything.  The end result was a success, though I never took a picture of that. 

I moved on to the second unit, which I bought off of eBay.  This unit was in worse condition, unlike the first model, this unit had been opened several times, and smelled of what could only be described as a foot like odor.  That being said I had my reservations about being able to bring this model back to life.
 
It's when I see something like this I sometimes I wonder about the gaming republic.  How do these people treat the items that give them so much enjoyment like crap?  It makes absolutely no sense to me at all.

 
As you can see, the more I delved, the less hope I had for this console.
 
When flipping the motherboard over I found the eraser method on the bottom of some of the RAM chips.  At this point all hope has been lost.  This time the end result, was an unsuccessful, after removing the X-clamps you see in the above I found the motherboard had been seared beyond repair.  I am keeping the parts, and hopefully I can find a broken model to cannibalize for parts, or vice versa with this unit.