ARM Controller - broken pins :(

Hi all, I won't go into how this happened :whistle: but needless to say I have stupidly broken three of the pins off my ARM controller board for my Minimig.

Is that it stuffed now or is it possible to replace the pins?

Cheers

J

@Skillgannon

I can help m8, infact we can seriously help each other =)

@ Skilgannon

Any chance of a picture of the damage, so we can assess how fixable it is....??

Thanks guys, I'll get my SLR and tripod and take a real close up so you can see what I've done!

Here's the sorry looking ARM controller.

piece of cake - PM has been sent m8

Maybe it's not the best solution around, but unless you can de-solder it and replace it with a new one, or have some folk do that for you, you can do a simple trick. Measure the length of the pin (eg. 5mm) not the whole thing with the square stem, but the cylindrical part of it, like the one that's missing. Take a clothspin, cut it at almost same length giving it an extra 1mm the most, insert the pointy pin into the whole of the socket where your now broken pin would go, and then attach the board at position. The slightly-longer pin will definitely make contact with the stem from which the broken pin is missing! :D
Maybe it sounds extreme, but i have done that on a P-III cpu of a friend's pc which now has the pin permanently sitting in the cpu socket's hole... Still running after years!

I agree 100% with Zetr0 - that's an easy fix (for us soldering Jedi, anyway :lol:)

Those turned pins can be quite brittle - they get work hardened as they are machined, and this is the result.

Keith you're turning out to be a Minimig jedi :)

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Originally Posted by arnljot

Keith you're turning out to be a Minimig jedi :)

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LOL, yeah.... who started this....


I know


it was GARY!!!!!