Where could I buy battery connector replacements for my mp3 player?
My trusty old 60GB Zen Vision M seems to have died for the last time. For several years I’ve been dropping it at least once a month, and it held up great. Once in a while it’d start skipping in a video and I’d open it up, reinsert the hard drive ribbon, and voila! Good as new (minus a few scratches). But this last time it gave me a firmware error message, and even after reloading the firmware it still wouldn’t work. I tried my usual fix, but nada. So I tried something else and somehow in all this the female battery connector on the circuit board broke off. I tried using glue (it was late, I was tired, and had no soldering iron…Idiotic, I know…), but while it worked for a few minutes, it broke off when I closed the thing up again, and I don’t know how to get the glue off (Loctite Super Glue) so that I can try soldering it back in place. If you know how to get superglue off electronic parts PLEASE let me know. Otherwise, where can I get just the connectors?
PS how can I anonymously post a picture of the part online?
PPS It’s a Li-Ion battery, charged the same way as an iPod.
Here are pics of the parts, f=female part, m=male; sorry, the photos are not great quality..
http://willhostforfood.com/files4/8/0/8/8088432/circuitboard.JPG
http://willhostforfood.com/files4/4/7/3/4735930/f1.JPG
http://willhostforfood.com/files4/9/4/3/9433512/f2.JPG
http://willhostforfood.com/files4/6/9/0/6903238/f3.JPG
http://willhostforfood.com/files4/3/7/4/3744156/f4.JPG
http://willhostforfood.com/files4/4/0/2/4029836/f5.JPG
http://willhostforfood.com/files4/2/3/7/237101/m1.JPG
http://willhostforfood.com/files4/6/4/9/6495692/m2.JPG
http://willhostforfood.com/files4/1/8/3/1832487/m3.JPG
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You can remove most types of super glue using Acetone/Propanone (nail varnish remover), I’d suggest you use the absolute minimum amount necessary, using the end of a tooth pick and then gently wipe the residue off with a cotton bud.
It’s difficult to know exactly which battery connectors you need without seeing a picture or a circuit diagran of your MP3 player. There several sites that allow you to post pictures/files anonymously such as: http://willhostforfood.com/
If you post a picutre of the part, we may be able to suggest a suitable replacement.