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sako243
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There isn't.
Make sure you have the locking tabs undone fully and you just have to push them in gently.
You'll typically find they're only officially rated for something like 5-10 insertions. They're a sod / impossible to repair. Only way I've done it in the past is to glue it down to the circuit board, scrape off the plastic coating and solder tiny wires and even that takes some doing.
Make sure you have the locking tabs undone fully and you just have to push them in gently.
You'll typically find they're only officially rated for something like 5-10 insertions. They're a sod / impossible to repair. Only way I've done it in the past is to glue it down to the circuit board, scrape off the plastic coating and solder tiny wires and even that takes some doing.
They are not the ones with a tab to lock it.
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I'd be surprised if they don't have a lock - ones I come across a lot have the "open" part of the socket where the flat cable goes in a separate piece (pushed inside the main housing), pull out a couple of mm to unlock, insert cable, push in and it locks and forces the ribbon against its contacts. Clear close-up of the socket?
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I've not seen one that does. Unless it's broken off...
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The only help I've found with inserting these are ninja tweezers.
They're nothing special, just a normal set of tweezers that have met some pliers to be bent into special shapes. He name originated from via an old colleague of mine where we had a uSD card pretty much inaccessible inside a chassis. Units always got sent to him in the basement initially to get the SD card out and then someone cottoned onto it and the technicians copied the tweezers and bent a handful to mimic the shape and they got distributed around the group to facilitate in SD card removal.
They're nothing special, just a normal set of tweezers that have met some pliers to be bent into special shapes. He name originated from via an old colleague of mine where we had a uSD card pretty much inaccessible inside a chassis. Units always got sent to him in the basement initially to get the SD card out and then someone cottoned onto it and the technicians copied the tweezers and bent a handful to mimic the shape and they got distributed around the group to facilitate in SD card removal.
They definately don't have lock sockets.
They fit into a printer head and cartridge system. The cartridge system you can't even see the socket as its hidden away.
Sadly it bends almost as soon as it comes from the socket.
