I spent about an hour today trying to find somebody who carries right-angle 30-pin SIMM sockets, and it seems that nobody at all sells them. It would therefore seem that I'm restricted to kludgy hacks. The SIMM is still held in place by the broken socket, so glue may not be necessary. Also, I may be wrong since I know practically nothing about hardware on this level, but the metal bits of the socket for pins 1 and 3 appear to be intact despite being exposed and bent, so it may be possible to just solder them to the SIMM. The only trouble then would be pin 2, which would probably need to be replaced with a wire. Is anyone here willing to take this on?desolder the borked socketsolder wires to the SIMM
solder them into the thru holes in the PCB
hold in place with hot glue
reverse kluge-fix-hack if/when new socket becomes available.
run board and call me in the morning.
Post #7 by Some_Person
| Source Forum | Anyone able to fix/replace a RAM socket? — #7 |
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| Category | Troubleshooting |
| Post Date | Wed, 18 Jul 2012 - 04:36 |
| Original URL | https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/anyone-able-to-fix-replace-a-ram-socket.25866/ |
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