How not to repin a connector

ieure

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I guess this is one way to do it, from my Asteroids' G05-805:

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Even this wasn't enough for these poor tired pins. There were blobs of solder on the header pins, and a chain of zipties which held the connector in exactly the right position for the pins to match up. The same person also "helpfully" reflowed the header pins, resulting in ruining pretty much every pad and trace on the solder side of the PCB for this header and necessitating significant repair work (this was all before I bought this game).

I fixed this the right way with nice trifurcon pins and new wire to the transistor mounts — the existing wires are very short, only a few inches, making it awfully hard to cut, strip, and crimp new pins. I gave myself a little more slack in case repairs need to be effected again.

It works great without even needing zip-ties now.
 
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