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Seeking someone to do some PCB soldering for me!

BlueJuice

Hi all,

Hopefully this is the right place to ask this. 

I've got a small project on the go thats going to require a bit of soldering, initially it was going to be just removing some existing antennas from  two wifi adaptors and soldering on a 10cm length of coax with SMA connectors on the end (to allow me to mount wifi adaptors within an enclosure with external antennas.

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Basically removing the white wires seen above and replacing with coax.

However I'm now thinking id like to remove the USB A from these adaptors, solder the usb cable straight onto the board to keep thinks much smaller, and then solder the other end of the USB cables onto a small powered USB hub  (again with the USB A connectors removed to keep things small).

Plan was to get all the kit and do the soldering myself but to be honest theres a good chance i'll have a disaster and im not too sure how much soldering im likely to do in the future, so maybe best that I get someone who knows what they are doing on the case!

If there's anyone on here that can do this kind of stuff, I'd love to have a chat, willing to pay for the service.


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  • 0 in reply to BlueJuice

    Your problem is that from  commercial point of view this just isn't likely to work.

    I get lots of people asking me to fix this and that (since Google listed my business without asking me first) and the problem is that to fix a 1980s anything could take anything from 10 minutes to three days (or never) and I don't know which until its finished.

    And at a reasonable hourly rate it could be a lot of money.

    This job looks similar.

    So your best hope is to get some one interested and hope that they will do it for amusement.

    To do that you'll need to explain what it's all for  -  and see if you get any takers.

    I'm in SW Scotland - if you were nearby I'd invite you to drop in and chat about it - but since only 0.2% or less of the UK population lives within 50 miles of me it's unlikely.

    But if you explain a bit more on E14 you may get some useful advice.

    MK

  • 0 in reply to michaelkellett

    I sort of get where you're coming from, but this isnt 1980s anything its brand new reasonable quality kit. 

    The crux of it is:

    1. Removing those two white wires that currently connect the existing dipole antennas and soldering on a a length on coax on instead (which i have, they have panel mount RP SMA connectors on the end so i can make my own enclosure with external antennas

    2. If realistically feasible, removing the USB A connector and soldering a USB cable directly on to reduce overall footprint of the adaptor, and as these are going onto a powered USB hub  I may aswell consider doing the same at the USB hub end aswell as its all getting mounted in the same enclosure.

    Doesnt seem on the surface to be a open ended job that takes an unknown about of time? Of course happy to be corrected if ive got that wrong. Also if this isnt the place to be asking a question like this then any bit of direction to where could be a better place would be appreciated.

    Thanks

  • 0 in reply to davebullockmbe

    Im on the somerset/dorset border, but would assume id need to post this to get it done. Yes ive all the bits, coax and usb cables etc so no sourcing of parts required.

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