Repairing a broken Zipit Z2 motherboard power socket
[ Second in a series recreating the lost posts -- This was originally posted 29/06/10]
Sorry there are no photos for this I was struggling too much with getting the iron into a tight place to actually worry about photos.
I recently got given two zipits where the tip of the power plug had snapped off and was stuck in the power jack. One still worked fine when used with the wall wart that had the tip broken off but in the other it seemed like the little bit of plastic from the power plug had come off in a weird way and blocked the plug from going in more than half way and thus the Zipit wouldn't power on.
After a bit of digging on the digikey.com website I found what looked almost the same as the connector in the zipit (PJ1-022-SMT) 
so I ordered 3 and they arrived on monday. I had to use an extremely hot iron (50W) and alot of flux and desoldering braid and one leg is an extremely tight fit but after desoldering the old connector and soldering on a new one I now have working zipit again.
My soldering skills current suck so it wasn't the easiest or neatest soldering job in the world but it does the job. It would help of course when I went to put the zipit back together if I could have found the box i've got all the zipit screws in so I could put the zipit back together properly but so far so good and hopefully I will find the screws.
