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I need a small component soldered onto a printed circuit board, can anybody recommend a good electronics expert in Aberdeen that won't charge me a minimum of £50 just to look at the thing?

[Alkaline]

Originally Posted by DustyDeviada

I need a small component soldered onto a printed circuit board, can anybody recommend a good electronics expert in Aberdeen that won't charge me a minimum of £50 just to look at the thing?

Can you be a bit more specific as to what you want soldered onto it?

Yep, basically I dropped my iPod and knackered the screen, thought I would have a go at replacing the screen myself, which went fine until the very last stage which involved plugging the battery ribbon cable back into a wee connector, when doing this I somehow ripped the wee connecteor off the printed circuit board. As I say, very wee, so a fairly intricate job.

[Tubthumper]

Should be fairly easy to solder yourself if it's a printed circuit board?

Bish bash bosh, job done.

A soldering iron can be as little as £10

the Homecraft style store on george street has them and you can pick up smaller nibs for smaller details at b&q

Nah, I have a soldering iron, but this is really, really small.

The tv repair people I've phoned won't touch it.

[Alkaline]

Originally Posted by DustyDeviada

Nah, I have a soldering iron, but this is really, really small.

The tv repair people I've phoned won't touch it.

I would offer to do it but it's as small as you say it is i don't think any of the nibs i've got at work would be any good :/

[Sue Denim..]

I know the connection you're talking about as I've looked into doing this for someone before. (It may even have been yourself under a different name.)
It's a pretty tricky job and to be honest I don't think I could do the job justice with just a soldering iron. These connectors are factory soldered in a solder bath. You'd end up burning the PCB plastic or using too big a blob if you tried to add more solder. (If you do try it yourself, don't be tempted to use a solder-sucker to remove the old solder. Smaller jobs require solder wick.)

Nope, wasn't me, I only broke it on Monday.

Looks like I'm going to have to post it off to an iPod expert to see if they can do anything, I'm loathe to fork out for a new one.