short story i was showing one of the builders my a1200, i was showing him the ide port when i saw that it was lose, on closer inspection i saw two of the pins broke off and are stuck in the ide wire, is there a way of fixing this and how 
In my A1200, I'm changing all pins of the IDE port because of corrosion: after removing the 2.5" IDE cable, some pins remained in the connector (cable). I have desoldered the IDE connector and I am trying to replace it with a new. This is long and fastidious.