Fixing a bent usb

Too many times I've thrown out a bent USB..
what if I really needed it? how likely would I be to repair it?
Any kits?

Usually happens with memory, but I just dropped and messed up a modem


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[Allodoxaphobia]

On Sun, 22 May 2011 02:59:17 +0000 (UTC), vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com wrote:

Too many times I've thrown out a bent USB..

A "bent USB" *WHAT*?

 

[Evan Platt]

On Sun, 22 May 2011 02:59:17 +0000 (UTC),
vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com wrote:

Too many times I've thrown out a bent USB..
what if I really needed it? how likely would I be to repair it?
Any kits?

Usually happens with memory, but I just dropped and messed up a modem

If you're breaking USB devices that frequently, it's time to look at
the root cause of why you're dropping / breaking them so frequently.
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On May 22, 3:59 am, vjp2...@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com wrote:

Too many times I've thrown out a bent USB..
what if I really needed it? how likely would I be to repair it?
Any kits?

Usually happens with memory, but I just dropped and messed up a modem

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Since you mention it, I have an SD card reader that's fallen apart and
will no longer recognise the card, although the computer recognises it
as a disk drive with no disk. For a while, I could get it to find the
card if I squeezed it between my fingers, but that doesn't work any
more. No sweat, I got a replacement for guess what in a 99p shop. But
just out of curiosity, is there anything I could use it for, e.g.
could the computer waggle any of the card contacts up and down somehow
to control something?

Chris

 

[John Robertson]

chrisj.doran%proemail.co.uk@gtempaccount.com wrote:

On May 22, 3:59 am, vjp2...@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com wrote:
Too many times I've thrown out a bent USB..
what if I really needed it? how likely would I be to repair it?
Any kits?

Usually happens with memory, but I just dropped and messed up a modem

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Since you mention it, I have an SD card reader that's fallen apart and
will no longer recognise the card, although the computer recognises it
as a disk drive with no disk. For a while, I could get it to find the
card if I squeezed it between my fingers, but that doesn't work any
more. No sweat, I got a replacement for guess what in a 99p shop. But
just out of curiosity, is there anything I could use it for, e.g.
could the computer waggle any of the card contacts up and down somehow
to control something?

Chris

You can always use it to prop open a window.

How on earth a computer could waggle a contact when the contact is a
simple piece of spring metal I'll never know...

John ;-#)#

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[mickgeyver]

On May 21, 10:59 pm, vjp2...@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com wrote:

Too many times I've thrown out a bent USB..
what if I really needed it? how likely would I be to repair it?
Any kits?

Usually happens with memory, but I just dropped and messed up a modem

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The micro usb connector broke off in my GPS unit due to flexing of no-
lead solder joints, was able to wick off the no-lead and use leaded to
fix it. Also hit a SAN DISK unit still plugged into the front of my
tower PC causing it to fail by lifting the lands from the board. That
required a few pieces of 30ga wire from the outer pins to a nearby cap
and some finer 40ga magnet wire to connect the D+/D- lines to the
controller chip. Tedious job but it works now.
al