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You can see the internal cabling doesn't look to bad at all as they are short cables so it made routing them easier. For now it's working nicely though so not too concerned. I then mounted the HDMI socket backwards into the hole left by the Multi-AV socket and it fits in nicely, I had to mount the adaptor backwards so that it could allow the socket to sit flush with the rear of the case, I've super glued this into place but shall hot glue it place once I did out my glue gun. I was able to gently bend these inwards to allow it to be passed through the hole and then bent them back, be very careful when bending them back out, I broke one socket by putting pressure on the centre of the USB socket. The panel mount USB socket came with two mounting points which were easily removed which gave a usb socket shell. Even despite removing all the plastic tabs and carefully prising they just weren't moving so I took out a pair of plierss and gently as possible prised them out, the outside of one socket was ever so slightly damaged but it's hard to tell.Īfter removing the old connectors I then set about modifying the back plate so that the sockets could sit as flush as possible, I gradually removed small parts of the back of the plastic housing so that they would site nicely behind. It was even more difficult to get the multi AV and IO sockets removed. After quite a while attempting this I resorted to the brute force method, it didn't look pretty and I've shown a picture to demonstrate that. Now i'm not sure if the above is true but I was able to heat up the solder points but with only solder wick it just wasn't working. I remember a long time ago a good friend who is far far more versed in such things that factory soldered items can be a pain to heat and remove as they typically use solder which melts at a higher temp when being factory made.
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Well it was a fine plan but in practice it was not as easy as I thought. I had an idea at this point of being able to desolder the rear connectors and remove the PCB which would give a nice clean look at the back.