I took about 3 hours to install a mini usb female adapter.
Used the female end of this:
To do a vertical placement, I had to:
- shave the inner shell down to nearly the bottom
- remove the softer plastic / rubber shell from the adapter
- sculpt the top corners down to fit into the rounded contour of the top shell
Cut the filco cable to reuse the pcb connector, and solder on the female adapter:
test placement:
Ironically solder the male end onto the filco cable to use as the first test cable:
the plate resting on the bottom shell, clearing the new parts, evidence of JB weld showing through:
everything buttoned up, no real ugly evidence of case modification:
sweet curly cable bro:
now to get a pimp cable!
