ThinkPad dock connector

[u666sa]

I went inside my thinkpad, cleaning it, removing BIOS chip, doing a flash with clean ME. Because I had bad ME and it wouldn't flash from Windows. Then I deflux everything.

Turns out dock connector on motherboard is rusted out inside. Individual copper strands on connector are gone. Covered in green crap, and gone after I cleaned the green crap.

Anyway to get this connector from somewhere other than a donor mobo?



I'm guessing to remove it, I'd need to remove some other connectors from the bottom, or find a bottom preheat and take it through the cycles up to 250C, and then hit it from the top with 150C. I don't have a bottom preheat yet, so will have to take off other plastic connectors on the bottom and just use a heat gun.

Attached is a BIOS with clean ME, best working version. Leaving it more for myself in case I'd need it in the future and lose it locally.

[u666sa]

[u666sa]

Perhaps inside the housing is another connector. To see it, I'd have to desolder the housing. Which I won't do now. But the idea is that if there is another connector inside, find that thing and replace it.

Now taking a look at it, I would be able to desolder the housing using some low melt. Looks easy the 2nd time around looking at it.

[amyk]

Schematic says connector is by JAE, and looking on their site shows that it's likely this series: https://www.jae.com/en/connectors/series/detail/id=64339

[u666sa]

JAE

On other forums I was told P/N for the connector is JAE-CONN148-6R-1-GP however google search didn't return any hits.

Any links to where to find this connector for sale?