A friend of mine has an Acer Aspire laptop, and the USB ports are "worn out". He says the contacts are either broken or bent.
He would like to take the laptop apart and either repair the ports or replace them.
He has a couple of junk laptops, and has already removed two good USB sockets from them, but he says they don't appear to mount the same way as on the Acer motherboard. So I suspect it's going to be tough to find the right replacements unless we can somehow figure out the right Mouser (or whatever) part to order.
An alternative would be to attempt to repair the existing sockets by replacing just the contacts.
Anyone have experience with this kind of repair, or have suggestions?