on 20/09/2016, Andrew Gabriel supposed :
In article ,
Simon Mason writes:
I have an Acer Aspire S7 and the DC power socket is goosed so I looked up t=
he part on ebay and it is only =C2=A34.50. However, the youtube video on fi=
tting it lasted 50 minutes so I took it to a repair man who said the job wo=
uld take HIM about 1.5 hours.

What a palaver for such a simple part - still he'll only charge me =C2=A320=
.

Done this several times at repair events.
The long part is the disassembly and reassembly.
Often, you find other problems too, such as broken hinges, and that
the laptop fan has been acting as the house vacuum cleaner for some
years, and/or something sticky has been spilt in it in the past.

People usually buy the connector with the flying lead and plug
(sometimes somes with a tiny daughter board), although I don't
recall if I've seen the precise model you have there. There's
not normally any soldering involved.

Lots of laptops have the DC jack soldered directly to the motherboard -
I've done four repairs just this last week.