Fixing a bent usb

A "bent USB" *WHAT*?

If you're breaking USB devices that frequently, it's time to look at the root cause of why you're dropping / breaking them so frequently.

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Since you mention it, I have an SD card reader that's fallen apart and will no longer recognise the card, although the computer recognises it as a disk drive with no disk. For a while, I could get it to find the card if I squeezed it between my fingers, but that doesn't work any more. No sweat, I got a replacement for guess what in a 99p shop. But just out of curiosity, is there anything I could use it for, e.g. could the computer waggle any of the card contacts up and down somehow to control something?

Chris

You can always use it to prop open a window.

How on earth a computer could waggle a contact when the contact is a simple piece of spring metal I'll never know...

John ;-#)#

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The micro usb connector broke off in my GPS unit due to flexing of no- lead solder joints, was able to wick off the no-lead and use leaded to fix it. Also hit a SAN DISK unit still plugged into the front of my tower PC causing it to fail by lifting the lands from the board. That required a few pieces of 30ga wire from the outer pins to a nearby cap and some finer 40ga magnet wire to connect the D+/D- lines to the controller chip. Tedious job but it works now. al