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Dagger Thrasher · 10.31.2008, 11:18 AM

Just a warning guys...you'll need a super powerful iron to desolder those bullets, and with the amount of copper in the PCB, you risk melting solder on other components on the board (as I once learnt with my MM). If this is really causing an issue, I'd just bend the relevant heatsink prongs out of harm's way, and maybe just shrinkwrap the plugs IMO?

I must admit, I can't see how a that socket would've been able to flex the PCB so much as for it to touch the PCB as it's so light (it would take a relatively high impact on the plug for that to happen...or at least, that's how it seems to me), so from where I am it sounds more likely that the plug slipped out and shorted. But even then, Patrick's said this shouldn't be able to happen, so I dunno. Strange...

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Dagger Thrasher I have no idea what's going on Offline Posts: 464 Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: UK	10.31.2008, 11:18 AM Just a warning guys...you'll need a super powerful iron to desolder those bullets, and with the amount of copper in the PCB, you risk melting solder on other components on the board (as I once learnt with my MM). If this is really causing an issue, I'd just bend the relevant heatsink prongs out of harm's way, and maybe just shrinkwrap the plugs IMO? I must admit, I can't see how a that socket would've been able to flex the PCB so much as for it to touch the PCB as it's so light (it would take a relatively high impact on the plug for that to happen...or at least, that's how it seems to me), so from where I am it sounds more likely that the plug slipped out and shorted. But even then, Patrick's said this shouldn't be able to happen, so I dunno. Strange...