Originally Posted by
Mechanic688
I personally break down all my drives and pull the motors and reader head. That reader has a gold diode in it that's easy to remove. To each their own,
I was wondering about them for awhile. It's kind of like a box of chocolates ... you never know what you'll find when you open up the box. Many units have one, some have two, and others seem to have none.
A heat gun works good for melting the solder that attaches the Mylar to the electrodes.
The uncertainty is the value. Did a scratch test and they're only a thickish gold plate over a soft base metal of some kind.
Tried it for awhile, but it seemed an awful lot of time invested for minimal return on gold plated pins and such.
Could be that i'm missing something.
ragstoriches 
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