Failing motherboards and ram holders

[Clark Kent]

Hi all. I'm a new user of Amiga.org. Not that I am in any way new to the Amiga, got my first A500 back in 1987, but I have only read these threads for years. I thought it was on high time to join the community myself. I have quite a few Amigas, both A1200s A4000s and an A3000.
 
Anyway, the issue I want to discuss is refurbishing our bellowed A4000 motherboards. I have an A4000 motherboard with a broken chip ram holder. You all know those small plastic holders aren't built to last, unfortunately. The motherboard works if I press the chip-ram down while booting, but it is kind of an awkward way to be using it over time.
 
Now, has anyone out there a good solution to this? It's too bad if the motherboard stays unusable because of this small plastic thingy. Are there anyone doing professional refurbishment on these old motherboards for money? AmigaKit maybe? I have done a little soldering myself, like replacing the clock battery, but I haven't dared to touch the audio capicitators. I know my limits.

Wouldn't it be great if there were someone professional we could send our old motherboards too in order to replace old audio capacitators, fix broken ram holders, insert a coin-battery solution for the clock and generally putting the thing in top-working order?

[fitzsteve]

Hi,
 
Yes Amigakit do the Simm socket replacement
 
http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=53&products_id=878
 
All the best,
 
Steve.

[elpiloto]

Yhea like fitzsteve told you, amiga kit do that job, they sell the ram sockets too, the job ( replacing the ram sockets on A4K) requiers some soldering skill, but is not a very complex task.

cheers

[Clark Kent]

Thanks fitzsteve and elpiloto, this is good news for me! Strange that I haven't seen this before since I have used AmigaKit quite a lot the last few years. I see they also do capacitor replacement service, would be great if AmigaKit also could insert a coin-battery solution.
 
By the way, AmigaKit is a great company for the community that I would give my best recommendations!

[fitzsteve]

Drop them a line, I'm sure if they have your board for the Simm socket job it would not be too hard to replace the battery at the same time, maybe even a coin type as you say.