28 May
2007
28 May
'07
5:16 p.m.
At 1:51 PM -0500 5/28/07, Jim Battle wrote:
Tony Duell wrote:
Let's not get into that again.
Time to get a better soldering iron.
On
5/27/07, Chris M <chrism3667 at yahoo.com> wrote:
I thought I was the person who always propsed component-level
rapair and generally got flamed for it... somehow I fail to see the logic of replacing an
entire
p/s when 3 minutes of soldering would alleviate the
problem...
Somehow that doesn't surprise me. . . But perhaps you can explain why soldering in a new
capacitor, which
is presumable a standard part available from just about any decent
electronics suppier, is mroe work than tracking down a somwwhat
rare PSU.
Tony, you have lots of time on your hands. Many people here have a
job, a wife, and kids that take priority over any hobby activity.
You have space to set up a nice workshop, and not everybody is so
well supplied as you. If Eric can send an email, proffer some
money, receive a power supply in mail, plug in the new power supply
and go, I can easily imagine it takes less of his time than to fix
it.
ChrisM said it would take three minutes to fix the power supply.
That is horse byproduct. It takes my soldering iron more than three
minutes to get hot. :-) Many of us don't have a well supplied junk
box, so it still takes a trip to an electronics shop or a web order to get the
replacement.
Disassembling the power supply, cleaning up the mess from the faulty
cap(s), unsoldering, soldering in the new one, reassembling the case
... it all adds up.
I can't speak for Eric, but I can easily imagine making a similar choice.
Typically I'd look for a replacement part, but for something as rare
as an Apple /// power supply I'll break out the soldering iron,
tools, instruments, and figure out what parts I need to order up in
order to repair it myself.
I'm sorry, this is a case where suggesting you fix it yourself,
rather than cannibalizing another system (working or not) is a valid
suggestion.
This sounds like a pretty easy fix, and there are people here on the
list that are more than willing to help talk the less electronically
inclined members through something such as this. This isn't
something like trying to do surface mount chips, it is very basic
soldering.
Zane
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