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[wwwyzzerdd]

well im not sure where you can buy a new drive yet as the wii is still pretty new, and shouldnt be having drive issues yet, but mabye someone can help you fix yours

whats your drive do?

[danybloke]

Well I was tinning the points on the circuit board in preparation for a wiikey when a drip of solder fell onto the pins of the chip to the left which subsequently melted about 4 pins.

I was shocked when the wii was put back together it still worked (played wii sport) despite losing about 4-5 pins - I suspect the pins that melted were not providing a function other than grounding. I'm going to continue the install now anyway but in case anything else should go wrong I need another drive.

There is a repair place in Scotland that repairs/replaces them so they must be getting their gear from somewhere.

I'll upload a pic of the bodge job later today

[FallsInc]

the pins don't melt... just remove the excess solder...

[commandersafi]

dont know where you can get another drive, but you could fix yours

Just grind away at the plastic around the 3 pins you need to solder to so you have more of the pin to work with

[BIMPtacular]

just put some flux on some desoldering braid and hold it on the pins and touch your iron to it and bam......good to go, i had to fix one for someone else and they had done the same thing

[Tortuga2112]

I was looking into that as well but there's nobody selling them. if you find someone selling them let me know as well.

I suspect he's selling them for so much because there was no chip for the d2c's before. that's a lot if you ask me.