Who can repair broken pins on Derenger Accelerator card

[barney]

Hello, I have a question.  I bought a CSA Derringer 030 Accerator card with three broken pins on it.  Does anybody know of a well known person who can replace the pins for a good price?  I would prefer sombody that has a good reputation and is trustworthy being that I would be shipping the item to their location.  Thanks.

Barney

[amiman99]

Do you have a picture of the damage? and where are you?

[barney]

If you look carefully at the pic, you will see the tip of one pin is broken off and two complete pins are broken off.  I will be back in a few hours to take a look at your reply.  Thanks.  By the way, I am in the Tampa, Florida area.

[som99]

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.

[amiman99]

.That looks pretty easy, one pin broken and 2 missing. Maybe 10-15 min job.
I could do it, but the hardest part is to source the missing pins.
Let me check ebay...

Edit: could be one of those: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Header-Strip-1x20-Breakable-Machine-Tool-Pin-Goldinsert-/370299169137?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item56378ce971

[barney]

Those pins on ebay hopefully will work nice.  Is there anybody in the Tampa area that can do this repair.  If not, I could also mail it if need be.  Also, what would be the cost of this repair?

Barney

[CodePoet]

As som99 and amiman99 said, it should be fairly simple if you have soldering experience, desoldering is the tricky part (especially if some of the pins are tied to a copper plane, as the plane will act like a heatsink, cooling the solder)

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

Can you post a photo of the other side of the card? Failing that, DigiKey or Mouser should have what you're after

I'm in Sydney, Australia - won't be feasible to send it over here, but I'm willing to look at it if you have no other choices available.

[som99]

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

[barney]

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.

[som99]

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.

[amiman99]

You don't need to replace the whole row, just the missing pins, they are breakable.
Even the one in the middle that is missing the pin, just use small flush wire cutters to cut it and de-solder it.

[danbeaver]

This is an easy repair, get an extender socket, plug in the old, broken socket and wrap or solder connection from busted pins to new ones. I've done it several times

[LoadWB]

I sold a Derringer a while back and somehow missed that one or two of the pins were broken off (not at the board, but the thin tips.)  Anyway, the buyer was from here and posted about how he fixed them.

[barney]

Do you have any idea where the post is?  I looked but could not find it.  Thanks.