Ok, I am going to try finding a kind answer. My s-video cable is DAMAGED. one of the four pins on the SCART broke. The cable is installed trhought the drywall. HOW DO I REPAIR A DAMAGED SCART. Can I cut the cable and try to buy another SCART?
Thanks so much!
Four pins? This is only wired for S-Video - no audio or control lines?
Just fit another plug - they're cheap enough.
Had it been a fully populated SCART it might have been worth just replacing the damaged pins - if you could find a plug of identical construction to pinch them from.
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Tenista, is it an S-video connector or a SCART connector? They are different. The Scart (Syndicat des Constructeurs d'Appareils Radior=E9cepteurs et T=E9l=E9viseurs) connector is used for combined audio and video connections. The connector is also known as a Peritel connector or Euroconnector. It has 21 pins in 2 rows. If you are in Europe you can easily buy another connector and use one of the pins in that. (They are usually removable). Open the plug by unclipping the 2 halves of the shell from each other. Identify the wire to the broken pin. Pull out the broken pin by pulling on its wire or by gripping/pulling with narrow nosed pliers. Do the next thing outside the plug to avoid melting any plastic. Unsolder the wire from the pin. Bare and tin the wire appropriately. Solder the wire to the new pin. Push pin into its slit in the Scart connector. Reassemble shell.
If, on the other hand, you have an s-video plug on the end of the lead, these are otherwise called mini-DIN plugs you can buy these in many places. It would be easier to cut the whole plug off and prepare the cable and cores for soldering on the new one.
It is crazy to put cables in a drywall!!!
Scart plugs cost from 1 to 5 euros where I live, and s-video plugs are around 6 euros
Wonder why the s-video plug is so expensive? In the UK they cost 0.85 gbp (about 1 euro) from Maplin - which is hardly the cheapest source.
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I just Googled and came up with Keene Electronics near Derby, =A31.99 for a plain vanilla or a super sexy gold plated job for =A33.49. I converted to euros for the benefit of the OP who i suspect is not UK based. I forgot about Maplin.
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