On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 07:58:30PM +0100, Antonio Carlini wrote:
> The stuff I have does not seem to break very often. Off-hand
> there's been this MP3 player that was dropped...
> The MP3 needed no manual (just glue!)...
I've fixed two dropped Nomads (neither were mine, thankfully) this winter...
Both seemed to have hit "earphone jack first" and torn loose the same three
components - the jack itself, and two caps that are part of the filter chain
coming out of the DAC. One had poor solder joints and just disloged
components, the other tore the pads from the PCB.
The fix was strictly mechanical and done by visual inspection, OTOH, I did
have to repair 4 "8 and 8 rule" traces - I used a single strand of wire out
of a chewed up IDE ribbon cable, after using superglue to put the pads back
on the board.
I've also fixed my own Rio PMP300 - cold solder joints attaching the chromed
battery terminals to the main board.
Nobody has brought an iPod to me to fix yet... after reading about battery
and connector issues, I'm just waiting...
-ethan
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Received on Wed Jun 09 2004 - 21:36:46 BST