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How do they do it ?
My son-in-law turned up yesterday looking very glum. His little 2 year-old
had kindly tried to recharge his iPhone for him - with the wrong type of connector ... The pins in the charge dock connector were badly mangled. He spent some time with my headband magnifier and a scalpel tip trying to recover it. I eventually pried it gently from his hands, and told him it was a lost cause, but that I would look into finding a YouTube vid to see if it was easily replaceable. Turns out that the job is all screws - none of that malarky with hot air guns and the like to get inside via screen removal. The connector is mounted on a small PCB, along with the mic and some other bits and bobs, There is a long flexiprint, and one of those 'click' connectors that always feel like you are trying to force them on wrong ... So, I went looking on Fleabay to see if this board was available, and at what cost. There are scores of people offering them in fact, and how much ? On average, 3 UKP- that's about $4.50. And that includes free first class post with Royal Mail. At that price, it's hard to see how anyone in the chain makes any money. Considering the cost of an iPhone, I would have thought that anyone would have been willing to pay at least a tenner for such a part ?? Arfa |
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On 01/11/2015 6:58 PM, Arfa Daily wrote:
My son-in-law turned up yesterday looking very glum. His little 2 year-old had kindly tried to recharge his iPhone for him - with the wrong type of connector ... The pins in the charge dock connector were badly mangled. He spent some time with my headband magnifier and a scalpel tip trying to recover it. I eventually pried it gently from his hands, and told him it was a lost cause, but that I would look into finding a YouTube vid to see if it was easily replaceable. Turns out that the job is all screws - none of that malarky with hot air guns and the like to get inside via screen removal. The connector is mounted on a small PCB, along with the mic and some other bits and bobs, There is a long flexiprint, and one of those 'click' connectors that always feel like you are trying to force them on wrong ... So, I went looking on Fleabay to see if this board was available, and at what cost. There are scores of people offering them in fact, and how much ? On average, 3 UKP- that's about $4.50. And that includes free first class post with Royal Mail. At that price, it's hard to see how anyone in the chain makes any money. Considering the cost of an iPhone, I would have thought that anyone would have been willing to pay at least a tenner for such a part ?? Arfa I suspect the Chinese must be subsidizing the postage of orders like this - the ones I get have tracking numbers, and Canada Post charges around $20 minimum for a tracked international package. If this is the case then international action may be needed to bring China into line on this. Interestingly China has agreed to drop the embargo on exporting Rare Earths - of course they may have been worried about loosing the somewhat exclusive market they had (China has 20% of world reserves, but 90% of the sales) as I suspect the other countries that had rare earths were busy getting all sorts of offers from mining companies and refiners to fill the gap! John :-#(# -- (Please post followups or tech inquiries to the newsgroup) John's Jukes Ltd. 2343 Main St., Vancouver, BC, Canada V5T 3C9 (604)872-5757 or Fax 872-2010 (Pinballs, Jukes, Video Games) www.flippers.com "Old pinballers never die, they just flip out." |
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