broken XQD card

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LennyLevy

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One of my 128G XQD cards split open like a sandwich yesterday as i was taking it out of its little plastic case. I've probably had it for over 5 years . Do I have any recourse? Seems pretty dicey to try to snap it back together. Fortunately I was going to put it in the camera so it was not recorded on yet .
 
The casing's primary purpose besides protection is to hold the chip's position so it can slide in correctly when meeting a host. It's not really dicey unless it's a complicated build where there are multiple parts moving or broken, but I guess there's a risk of not closing it back properly and jamming the card inside the slot (but then again it would probably also have a tough time sliding in if it wasn't closed properly).

I did this ONE time, and one time only, with a very simple SD card back like in 2010. It worked.
 
I would super glue the card back together. It simply holds the chip in place as long as the memory is undamaged it should be fine.
 
I'll try it - what the hell. Anyone else do this and have good luck?
The card is so important , I would hate to have a failure because I tried to save a few bucks.
 
I think a snow balls chance in hell Sony is going to give you a new card for a 5 year old one , this well out of the warranty . Seems to be a few posts on the inter web recently about the older cards falling a part and bits getting caught in the slots. I hope the newer news are better built .
 
Peter C. said:
I would super glue the card back together. It simply holds the chip in place as long as the memory is undamaged it should be fine.
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A braver man than me, Peter. Just imagine opening up the slot after getting some good footage and seeing that card fall apart... Will it, won't it download...
 
I have had little plastic chips break out of a couple of cards and I repaired them with sugru, which worked just to fill in the plastic . That works fine, but the cards were still basically intact . If others had tried the "snap it back and superglue" method I'd give it a whirl , but I agree - if it didn't work you've completely F-d yourself and lost a client, if not your reputation.
 
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Peter C. said:
I would super glue the card back together. It simply holds the chip in place as long as the memory is undamaged it should be fine.
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+1 to that.! My thoughts exactly. Good old Super Glue or some kind of epoxy. My go would be the brush on non-running Super Glue. Not much to lose at this point, I guess, as I think any recourse through Sony after this amount of time would be a long shot. I notice one of mine has a small chip of plastic missing from the back edge and was thinking "How much longer, I wonder?"

Chris Young
 
That little small chip on the back is what I filled in with sugru . Seems to solve any issues of further chipping . Sugru is fantastic stuff.
 
cyvideo said:
+1 to that.! My thoughts exactly. Good old Super Glue or some kind of epoxy. My go would be the brush on non-running Super Glue. Not much to lose at this point, I guess, as I think any recourse through Sony after this amount of time would be a long shot. I notice one of mine has a small chip of plastic missing from the back edge and was thinking "How much longer, I wonder?"

Chris Young
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If super glue doesn't work then use duct tape. lol
 
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Wow. What timing this thread is. One of my first Sony XQD cards just chipped off some of that plastic just about a week ago... and thankfully did not get lodged in the media slot.
Bummer to hear these aren't holding up... as much as we first paid for the buggers when they came out.
 
UPDATE:

As I mentioned, I have... or had an XQD card with a piece snapped out of its rear edge. As Lenny suggested, try Sugru. Well, I didn't have any and mentioned to a colleague I had to find some. He said, "Just fix it with Super Glue and Baking Soda." I asked him, "What do you mean?" He then pointed me to this following YouTube video. I was pretty amazed at what was being demonstrated on this video, so decided to give it a go. Before committing, a perfectly working XQD card to this process I tested the process out with a few bits of scrap plastic and was pretty amazed at my success of making new joints and repairing broken pieces together. So I gave it a go! After the success of fixing/replacing the broken out piece, I just pared back the excess repair material and hit it with a permanent ink Sharpie. Hey presto, fixed!

Chris Young

Super Glue and Baking soda! Pour Glue on Baking soda and Amaze With Results

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Chris,

Excellent. I'm posting bad cell phone pics of my card - using Sugru... I probably needed to add just a bit more to that right corner - but I thought it best to go lightly on the first try. Interesting to me that both our cards lost plastic in almost the same spot... must have been something wrong with the mold Sony factory used...

And thanks for sharing that baking powder tip - I'll give that a go on some project soon...
 

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Yes, interesting as you say as to where he cards failed, in a similar spot? The baking soda and Super Glue thing is quite amazing. I'll definitely be testing it out and probably using it on some other repair tasks when necessary.

Chris Young
 
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