vintage computers and lead poisoning?

On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 07:58:30PM +0100, Antonio Carlini wrote: I've fixed two dropped Nomads (neither were mine, thankfully) this winter... Both seemed to have hit "earphone jack first" and torn loose the same three components - the jack itself, and two caps that are part of the filter chain coming out of the DAC. One had poor solder joints and just disloged components, the other tore the pads from the PCB. The fix was strictly mechanical and done by visual inspection, OTOH, I did have to repair 4 "8 and 8 rule" traces - I used a single strand of wire out of a chewed up IDE ribbon cable, after using superglue to put the pads back on the board. I've also fixed my own Rio PMP300 - cold solder joints attaching the chromed battery terminals to the main board. Nobody has brought an iPod to me to fix yet... after reading about battery and connector issues, I'm just waiting... -ethan -- Ethan Dicks, A-130-S Current South Pole Weather at 10-Jun-2004 02:30 Z South Pole Station PSC 468 Box 400 Temp -89.3 F (-67.4 C) Windchill -126.6 F (-88.09 C) APO AP 96598 Wind 8.6 kts Grid 061 Barometer 665.8 mb (11168. ft) Ethan.Dicks(a)amanda.spole.gov http://penguincentral.com/penguincentral.html