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Re: Apple 3.5" card cable repair
On 9/2/2010 11:58 AM, A2Aviator wrote:
There should also be a tool that
can pop those pins out of that female connector - if that were
available to you, well .. then.. perhaps there is an older
electronics supply store that has people who know whats really going
on .. and might have said tool that you could pop a connector out.
I have a terminal removal tool somewhere.... just have to actually find it.
Peel back some of that wire, slide a piece of heat shrink up it, do
your repair and when your happy with it, push that down and shrink it.
You may even wish to shove in a sewing pin and snip it off, then slide
the heat shrink over it. That will provide a splint so it can't bend
at that contact point again.
Another source of a 19 pin ribbon is a PC Transporter, if you've got a
dead one.. or unwanted one.
Got one, but it works right now.
I will say this though, do NOT use anything but the proper tool, or a
properly working bench vice to crimp IDC ribbons. Unless you are
extremely well versed at it, you WILL screw it up. :)
I seem to have recalled doing a few PC floppy and IDE cables using a
bench vice without any issues, they all seemed to have worked. A
Superdrive card popped up on ebay (for an insane $400+), and lo and
behold, it has an IDC floppy port on it! I guess Apple got cheap with my
card's connector, but its nice to know it can be retrofitted.