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Apparently my soldering iron brushed the corner of this socket by accident. Did it damage it to the point where the socket needs to be replaced now?
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If you can replace it without further damage to the board then do it. If you don't have a way to easily desolder it then clean up the square hole with a sharp hobby knife to get rid of the melty bit that is covering the hole. If the side of the socket isn't damaged and if it's just the top of it you're fine.
Where are you in Texas? I forgot... If you're in the Dallas area stop by and I'll give you one.
Hours south of you, I'm afraid.
But Mouser is pretty quick. My guess is this is too obscure for Fry's.
Here's a side shot.
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Ignore the wire sticking up. Does that look salvageable? I just don't want to introduce any instability into the game because of this.
That doesn't look too bad. Clean it up and see how it looks/works. It only looks like a little bit of the plastic got hit and nothing else.
Have you done socket replacements before/are you good at it? No shame in avoiding do it if you think you won't do a good enough job that you'd be happy with.
If this were a scrub board then I'd absolutely pull out the Hakko and give it a go. But it's not; it's a high value board for me so I'm a little reluctant to make it my first socket replacement attempt.
That is kind of what I thought.![]()
I was in the same place (not a high value board, but impossible to find). Sadly, the guy I found to do it didn't do a great job. 10x time better than me, but when I saw little "rings" around the legs of the old chip, I figured I was screwed. The new socket/new chip either didn't fix the problem or the replacement job wasn't executed well enough.