After many years using a trusty Zax 278 Z80 emulator, the law of averages finally caught up with me. I managed to break off two of the end pins on the emulator probe (flush with the circuit board, of course). I've heard that Zax has gone belly up some years ago and was wondering if anyone had any suggestions as to how I might repair or replace the broken pins (or the whole assembly for that matter). Thanks for any and all suggestions, Bob ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com To UNSUBSCRIBE from techtoolslist, send a message with "UNSUBSCRIBE" in the message body to: techtoolslist-request@flippers.com. Please direct other questions, comments, or problems to jrr@flippers.com.
Can you just unsolder the pins and insert new ones? The other thing that I do is always have at least one machine socket on the emulator pod -- this way the socket gets sacrificed if any physical harm comes to the pins. And I CAREFULLY remove the old socket and put a new one on.. Kurt
After many years using a trusty Zax 278 Z80 emulator, the law of averages finally caught up with me. I managed to break off two of the end pins on the emulator probe (flush with the circuit board, of course).
I've heard that Zax has gone belly up some years ago and was wondering if anyone had any suggestions as to how I might repair or replace the broken pins (or the whole assembly for that matter).
Thanks for any and all suggestions, Bob ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
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Bob, I have a Fluke 9010 pod that had some broken pins. I dug down into the plastic body to expose about 1/16" of the pin then got a good gold pin from a wire wrap socket and soldering to the reamins of the pin. I used a top quality electronics silver solder (Kester) that melts at a low temperature (~375d) and a temperture controlled iron. I cut the pin to the correct length before soldering and soldered the cut end to the old pin. That leaves the smooth round end of the pin exposed. So far it's held up fine. Joe At 09:46 PM 4/19/00 PDT, you wrote:
After many years using a trusty Zax 278 Z80 emulator, the law of averages finally caught up with me. I managed to break off two of the end pins on the emulator probe (flush with the circuit board, of course).
I've heard that Zax has gone belly up some years ago and was wondering if anyone had any suggestions as to how I might repair or replace the broken pins (or the whole assembly for that matter).
Thanks for any and all suggestions, Bob ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
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jbutler@speedchoice.com appears to be invalid. Is that correct? I get a bounce from the list server... Please reply in email. John :-#)# John's Jukes Ltd. 2343 Main St., Vancouver, BC, Canada V5T 3C9 Call (604)872-5757 or Fax 872-2010 (Pinballs, Jukes, Video Games) http://www.flippers.com "Old pinballers never die, they just flip out." To UNSUBSCRIBE from techtoolslist, send a message with "UNSUBSCRIBE" in the message body to: techtoolslist-request@flippers.com. Please direct other questions, comments, or problems to jrr@flippers.com.
You might check with Digikey and see if they have the replacement cable, they have many odds and ends of cables, secondly, I use an IC socket whenever I have a plug to plug into a UUT (Unit Under Test). The plugs for the Fluke pods are also vulnerable to breakage, hence a nice 40 pin IC socket get put on them...works very well, just make sure the pins of the IC socket are flat the same way as the regular CPU... John :-#)# At 09:46 PM 4/19/2000 , Bob Barr wrote:
After many years using a trusty Zax 278 Z80 emulator, the law of averages finally caught up with me. I managed to break off two of the end pins on the emulator probe (flush with the circuit board, of course).
I've heard that Zax has gone belly up some years ago and was wondering if anyone had any suggestions as to how I might repair or replace the broken pins (or the whole assembly for that matter).
Thanks for any and all suggestions, Bob ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
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John's Jukes Ltd. 2343 Main St., Vancouver, BC, Canada V5T 3C9 Call (604)872-5757 or Fax 872-2010 (Pinballs, Jukes, Video Games) http://www.flippers.com "Old pinballers never die, they just flip out."
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