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Re: Who can repair broken pins on Derenger Accelerator card
« on: November 11, 2012, 08:28:16 PM »
Seems easy enough, buy a 32-pin header and desolder/resolder the new one, I guess a lot of people here can do that including me, I would pick the one here on A.org that lives closest to you.

It's a quite easy job, I guess you could find a lot of places near you who could solder that for less then postage world wide. Nearest electronics repair place would do.
 

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Re: Who can repair broken pins on Derenger Accelerator card
« Reply #1 on: November 11, 2012, 10:54:11 PM »
Quote from: CodePoet;714574
If I hazard a guess though, there may not need to be any soldering involved. It appears as though they're using standard machined-pin break-away headers to plug onto existing pins on the card (acting like pin extenders)...Maybe

Extending is a good way to go also if he do not want to solder and/or can't find someone to do it near enough, tho height might be an issue and has to be checked before doing so (I do not think height will be an issue but checking never hurts).

@barney - What machine are you going to use it on, 1000, 500 or 2000?
Edit: by the looks of it the pins would be happy if cleaned a bit :)
 

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Re: Who can repair broken pins on Derenger Accelerator card
« Reply #2 on: November 11, 2012, 11:19:02 PM »
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If you look on the row of pins closest to you, to the far right you can see that two pins are completely missing.  They snapped off.  somehow, either those need to be replaced or the whole row replaced.  Whichever is easier....way out of my league though.

I'm not really sure which machine to use it on yet.  I may just try it on my Amiga 1000.


Missed that, I would replace the entire row, also if using it on the A1000 you will need an socket extender.

I hope you find someone close to you who can fix it, I could do it but I live far from you, if I where you I would order the pins and find some random electronics repair shop close to you and pay them to solder the new pins there, a few mins work and will be the cheapest route.