From: Peter Machule (machule_at_triumf.ca)
Date: Thu Jul 25 2002 - 13:32:50 EDT
I've done it a couple of times.
the soldering part is trivial ...
It's getting to the Damm socket that is the pain !
;-}
..peter
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Markowitz" <scosgt_at_worldnet.att.net>
To: <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>; "Lee Reynolds" <lr_at_fluent.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 10:28 AM
Subject: Re: 760EL - intermittent power socket
> When I have asked that question in the past, I was told the socket needed
a
> touching up with a soldering iron, and that it's not easy to do.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lee Reynolds" <lr_at_fluent.com>
> To: <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 1:14 PM
> Subject: 760EL - intermittent power socket
>
>
> >
> > The other 760EL question is:
> >
> > The four prong socket in back of the laptop is pretty flaky, the charger
> > plug needing all kinds of manipulation before I can get the charging LED
> to
> > illuminate. I've established that it *is* the socket in the 760EL, not
the
> > plug on the charger.
> >
> > What is the best way of replacing this item? Obtain a socket and get out
> > the soldering iron or replace the unit that the socket is a part of?
> >
> > In either case, what would the part number be? (The only diagrams I have
> > access to don't really show what the socket is a part of...)
> >
> > TIA,
> > Lee
> >
>
>
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