Okay, so I have a CD-Player with one of those "remotes" so you can control it without taking it out of your pocket. A while back the remote was clipped to my belt loop, and as I sat on the ground I had put my hand on the cord, when I attempted to stand up the cord was torn right out. I would fix it myself, but there are 6 wires that need to be soldered, and I have no idea what the order is, as they are all spiraled together. In any case, I bought it from a small "grey-market" asian computer store, and it is made by Panasonic. Is there any way I can get a new remote/unit, or get my remote repaired without paying the $53USD for just the tiny little remote?

Is that the kind that you plug into the headphone port and then the headphones into the remote? I think you can buy the headphone/remote combo for less than $15. If that's not what you're talking about then sorry, I don't know.

Yes it is that kind, however this one has a little LCD display and stuff, and is $53USD to replace.

Anyone?

Try eBay?

Yeah that's my only advice... try seeing if you can buy it second hand.

Randomly touch the wires to the connections, and when you have them right, sodder them.

Me fixy.

/takes off pants and plugs in soldering iron.

Give me the brand name and model number, and I'll try to find you a schematic.

The CD-player is the Panasonic SL-CT810.

By 6 wires, do you mean one stranded wire...or 6 actual wires?

I would asume 6 diffrent wires... that would make more sense...

My mistake he ment one standard wire.

Atleast you know where the green one goes >.<

E-mail their tech support, ask for it to be forwarded to one of their engineers, and ask which wire goes where. Easy. Solder them in and you're done. That's even something I could do.

Of course my dad could fix it without such help, and in the process make it work 2x better! <3 dad

It's harder than it looks, the width of the chip in that photograph is about 1.5cm, so image how small each one of those contacts is

A good soldering iron and a steady hand and you're fine. No pressure

Build a machine to enlarge the device. Repair it, and then you only have to worry about building a machine to make it smaller again.

The machine was already invented a couple'o'thousands of years ago, or something. It's called a magnifying glass. And you don't need another machine to remove the effect. You just remove the magnifying glass...

Build a time machine and prevent all the stupid **** from happening.

Yar, a good portion of my sophomore year was Surfact Mount. It isn't that hard if you have a small enough tip. My hand is shakey as hell and I did just fine with it. My only problem was I kept tombstoning the resistors ^_^.

My dad claims he can do it, and panasonic sent me an e-mail forwarding my request for specs/diagram/something so I can do it myself to their tech department.

Just as well. I can't find anything. Not that I'm surprised I can't find free schematics.