Right, I don't know exactly when this happened, but after a friend inserted and SD card into my camcorder it stopped reading the card, the card however worked fine elsewhere.
Upon investigation, I discovered a little tiny bit of plastic had come off the contact end of the card. Low and behold I can just see a bit of Black plastic jammed at the back of the card slot.
I've tried nudging it with hard card and stabbing at it with a bit of thickish wire but it's stuck fast. If I can't fix it my dad will kill me, he payed a fortune for it when it came out and we don't have the money to buy anything near as good.
I'd appreciate it if someone could give me some tips on how to unstick this bastard!
Thanks.
Here:
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[B] I don't see how this is funny. This is a damn expensive camcorder and I'm fucked if I can't fix it.[/B]
Care to take some pictures?
Try using some needle-nose pliers to bend the tip of a needle just a bit, to create a sort of hook that will fit into the slot. If you can get the tip of the needle behind the plastic, you could probably pull it out. Be careful not to damage any contacts in the camera.
punch your friend in the dick. then use a bent paperclip to try and work it out. pictures would be nice
She doesn't have a dick..
And il get Pictures as soon as I'm out of bed.
Damn sd cards suck,i also cracked one already.
There, pictures, I've tried with a paperclip but is totally jammed!
[QUOTE=Wickerman123;36778739]She doesn't have a dick..
And il get Pictures as soon as I'm out of bed.[/QUOTE]
Ah, so you were making porn.
if you cant get it out then just cut the same bit off the SD card you want to put in.
Even with the Sd Crad that broke it won't read. I have no idea exactly what happened or how it happened
Carefully pull it out with a pair of tweezer
There's no chance I'm fitting a pair of tweezers in there.
Find a pair that fits then, you have little options here.
I've tried six, none of them fir, the only thing that would possibly fit in there is something thin like a paperclip, and I've tried that.
Go to a specialist who would take it apart and take the slot apart and take the piece out.
I've emailed a UK based company that specialise in Camcorder repair.
They say that most Domestic camcorders cost between £50-£80. I think mine is a domestic Camcorder, it's small like most other Panasonic camcorders. I hope so anyway or else that's all my money gone. :(
Could try and find a disassembly guide online and disassemble it yourself.
[QUOTE=tratzzz;36783333]Go to a specialist who would take it apart and take the slot apart and take the piece out.[/QUOTE]
You can't exactly "take the slot apart", the metal shield over the SD card slot is usually soldered down onto the board. I doubt the OP is capable of desoldering.
Looking at an SD card I have on my desk, it may only come out if you pull it straight out. If you can bend the tip of a needle at a 90° angle and retain the pointed end, you could press it into the side of the plastic with a popsicle stick and try pulling it out. I made a crappy drawing in Paint:
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/e1goV.png[/IMG]
I can desolder. I learned that skill working for an electronics company. It's not the card that's jammed it's a tiny piece of the card.
And no way am I taking it apart.
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And icnt get anything behind the plastic bit.
I would take it to get repaired if it would be cheaper to do that than buy a new camera and you don't want to take it apart.
What's the camera model?
Panasonic HDC-SDT750
[QUOTE=Wickerman123;36792499]Panasonic HDC-SDT750[/QUOTE]
Jesus fuck I feel sorry for you, At that price i wouldn't go around sticking pins/paperclips into it. Just take it to a specialist.
Get the SD card that had the piece broken off and put a tiny dot of super glue on the area where the piece snapped off. Then push it back in the slot firmly and hold it for 30 seconds. After that, slowly pull the card back out and it should also pull the broken piece out.
If it doesn't, it likely means there's a metal barb somewhere on the inside of the slot holding it.
[QUOTE=bohb;36818840]Get the SD card that had the piece broken off and put a tiny dot of super glue on the area where the piece snapped off. Then push it back in the slot firmly and hold it for 30 seconds. After that, slowly pull the card back out and it should also pull the broken piece out.
If it doesn't, it likely means there's a metal barb somewhere on the inside of the slot holding it.[/QUOTE]
I wouldn't condone this. There's a chance that the superglue could end up on inside the SD slot, then he'd be totally fucked.
He'd need to empty an entire bottle of superglue inside the slot to do any damage. A tiny dot isn't going to harm anything, even if it manages to get on the wall of the slot. It's easy enough to scrape off.
No.
[QUOTE=bohb;36818840]Get the SD card that had the piece broken off and put a tiny dot of super glue on the area where the piece snapped off. Then push it back in the slot firmly and hold it for 30 seconds. After that, slowly pull the card back out and it should also pull the broken piece out.
If it doesn't, it likely means there's a metal barb somewhere on the inside of the slot holding it.[/QUOTE]
Do this with a toothpick or some shit like that instead.
It's [B]JAMMED.[/B] No way will superglue get it out. It looks like it's got jammed in part of the mechanism that locks the SD card in place once it's in.
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