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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:<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/vees/3753406223/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/vees/3753406223/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Back onto these:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/vees/3753405277/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/vees/3753405277/</a><br><br></div><div>which is a level of soldering ability that I don't have, both in equipment and my shaky hands.</div><div><br></div><div>I know they still work because I can put a nail head across the terminals and get the laptop to turn on.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>--</div><div>Rob Carlson rob@vees.net <a href="http://vees.net">http://vees.net</a>/</div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span> </div><br></div></body></html>