[COLUG] Need soldering help: Friday Lunch & broken "PC Card" connector

[jep200404]

Judd Montgomery wrote:

> Where is lunch?

1236 E Hudson, about 0.9 miles east of I-71. 

> I was able to get inside the jack and bend the connectors back into 
> place and now it works fine. 

Congratulations. I noticed that Tom Cranston had some interesting 
comments about the center pin. 

> I have another problem ... 
> I let someone borrow it last weekend and they transported 
> it with a PC card inserted.  The pc card must have gotten shoved into 
> the laptop and the pc card riser slot on the MB is broken. 

Uh oh. 

> I can press 
> it back into position and get the PC card to work until I let go. 

Good. 

> Is this fixable, or worth fixing?

If only the connector is broken, i.e., if the motherboard PCB 
is not damaged, then it's fixable. How feasible is another 
matter. Getting the right replacement part is tougher than 
for the power connector. As you understand the soldering 
requires considerably more skill than for the mundane power 
connector. I'll just have to take a look to see if I want to 
take on this problem. Others can look also if you post to the 
list a URL for a HIGH resoluton picture of the broken stuff. 

Jim