IDC (Re: Archive 5945C)

From: Doc Shipley <doc_at_mdrconsult.com>
Date: Sat Feb 28 00:59:19 2004

On Feb 27, 2004, at 11:03 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
>> Tony....
>>
>>>>> I would suspect that ... it's the female part that wears out.
>>>>> the male part ... not likely to show much wear
>>
>> While this may be true, it is usually a bad experience when the male
>> part
>> gets severely bent or broken.......
>
> It's not _that_ hard to replace. The trick, of course, is to cut the
> male
> connector apart while it's still soldered to the PCB, and desolder it a
> bit at a time.

   Hopefully under heavy sedation?

> If it's a straignt, vertically-mounted connector (not the right angle
> type), it's often possible to desolder individal pins and push them out
> of the moulding while hot. Then you can solder in a replacement pin,
> taken from another connector.

   a la John Bobbit.


        Doc
Received on Sat Feb 28 2004 - 00:59:19 GMT