On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Tyrone Lumley wrote:
> Good idea, I wouldn't have thought of that. It worked fine on one leg.
>
> Unfortunately, another leg is busted all the way up past the fat part.
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IFAIK, those chips are no more. it seems like you have nothing to lose, so
you might want to try filing away some of the resin from around the busted
leg, and try to get enough exposed metal that you can solder something to
it. another trick that might work is inspired by the SMT DIYers... put
some solder paste on the joint with a "peg leg", hold it together with
stainless steel locking forceps (or some other stainless steel tool), and
put it in a toaster over; heat it until the solder starts to flow, then
turn off the toaster and let it cool.
> Looks like I got me a 75 dollar MIDI controller.
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was it "as is"? or "powers up but i have no way to test it"?
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