Am I screwed?

[tt]

Thanks for posting pics. What I suggested wouldn't work... Maybe you could use a compatible female to male CPU socket and before you stack the socket on top of the existing one, you would solder a thin wire to the new socket to the spot where the broken pin would have gone into and then solder the other end of the wire to the component side of the board after installing the socket. The DayStar IIvx adapter uses this female to male socket I'm guessing to raise the height of the adapter board to clear some components. The additional height would have to be low enough to clear the metal chassis for installing the board.

Socket stacking: https://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg161/scaled.php?server=161&filename=micromac1zf8.jpg&res=landing

Edit: I see now Dennis suggested the same thing...

There are incompatibilities that crop up with accelerators and the Xceed board, for instance, it is not compatible with the DayStar Turbo 040.

 

[Brooklyn]

Well, I got it fixed. I used a standard 68030 socket and a small bit of solder. First, I filled the pin hole in question on the new socket with solder, with some extra "bubbled" on the top. Then I placed the accelerator in the new socket as far as it would go, the damaged pin now touched the cooled solder bubble. Next, I heated the pin filled with solder, until the solder liquefied, and while keeping the heat on, pressed the sockets together so it is completely seated.

There were not any clearance issues fitting it back in to the SE/30 chassis. Turned it on and it works great! Check out the pictures below:

 

[Brooklyn]

Last 2 pics

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

< head->desk . . . head->desk . . . head->desk >

I just mailed the bubble-package about 40 min. ago . . . :I

 

[Brooklyn]

Ah geez sorry...I just got the new sockets in the mail this afternoon, and had to try them out! Thanks though, if you need any mac parts let me know maybe we can do a trade :beige:

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

No need to be sorry or worry about trades, I'm just glad you got it fixed. :approve:

It figures, I haven't had two scheduled days off in a row for three weeks until today & tomorrow, so f course, the last couple of days I was home sick. BLEH!!! :

At least I figured out how to send up to a 13oz. Parcel out after hours. Yours was only 1oz. so no biggie, maybe they'll come in handy for something else. Maybe forward one of the strips to Dennis Nedry to play with . . . I sent two short ones taped at right angles to you, so one might arrive intact. [] ]'>

 

[Dennis Nedry]

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