Amiga 2000 battery PCB and CPU socket damage

[EugeneNine]

I find the big sockets like these its easier to carefully pry the plastic frame off then desolder each pin one at a time.


I'm not sure "a few still available at digikey" is a good way to describe it, makes it sound like they only have a few left and when they are gone they are gone which isn't the case.  These are still a standard stocked part, if there were only a few left there would have been a notification of its discontinuance.

I still need to get time to work on mine some more, seems the battery damaged more than just the socket.

[EugeneNine]

It's just not the flavor of the month... There is a small quatity available for "small or single orders". You can order a batch but there is a one month lead time.

Thats typical for distributes.  Its a JIT world, you take a mean of how many are ordered over a given time and other just that much so you keep minimal stock because stock takes space and costs overhead.  Not many people order those big sockets anymore so they don't keep a lot on hand.