[dorkbotdc-blabber] Soldering tiny connectors

[Justin Sabe]

You only need to tack one down and the second one will be resting on
the pad making contact anyway. clear your mind and take a deep breath
before you start.

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 11:52 PM, Rob Carlson<rob at vees.net> wrote:
> I am replacing the hard drive in a friend's Powerbook G4.  Thanks to some
> sloppy disassembly, I managed to pull the plug for the power switch off the
> board.  The socket was stronger than the solder points and it just popped
> off.  So now I have the unenviable task of getting this:
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/vees/3753406223/
> Back onto these:
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/vees/3753405277/
>
> which is a level of soldering ability that I don't have, both in equipment
> and my shaky hands.
> I know they still work because I can put a nail head across the terminals
> and get the laptop to turn on.
> Does anyone have any experience with solder points this small that could
> give me advice on what I need to do it fix it.  Seeing as the whole rest of
> the laptop works like a dream now, I'd like to get this fixed somehow.
> --
> Rob Carlson  rob at vees.net  http://vees.net/
>
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