IDC (Re: Archive 5945C)

From: Tony Duell <ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
Date: Sun Feb 29 11:12:58 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?

No, actually you want to be fully allert so you don't lift any traces on
the PCB.

It's not _that_ bad a job. I've had to do it a number of times, and I
don't worry about it any more.

-tony
Received on Sun Feb 29 2004 - 11:12:58 GMT