The procedure to remove the GPS module from the board looks to be fairly straight forward with a hot air rework tool, so I am going to check the maker space this week to see if they have one I can use, otherwise I imagine a couple of the electronics guys in the club would have one.
Now just trying to confirm if Cris is sending me a new GPS module.
When the repair is done there will be epoxy reinforcement.
By all means share your results. I haven't worked with a hot air rework device before but I'd be concerned that some of the components near the base could be affected. I'm not an electronics wonk so would be interested what it takes to pull off.
The Maestro GPS is pretty cheap I last recall. Perhaps Cris can comment? I believe the solder he gives us is of the low temp variety and that would be the best bet for removal.
Me? I used a cutoff wheel and carefully split the base in half to the board. I then laid the side of the soldering pencil against all the contacts until the "half-base" fell off. Did the same to the other side. Now this was with the EggFinder and might be
a whole lot harder to do this crude removal process with a TRS. If you can get the repair process done for less than the cost of a new unit, you'll be coming out ahead. (Plus you don't have to go through the hassle of building another one. But then again, I found them fun to build.) Again, keep us posted. At least you got some flights out of yours. My first EggFinder I broke 30 minutes after I completed the build. It was working perfectly and I was excited as all get out. Went to pull it off the windowsill and it
slipped and landed on the floor. Yup, the GPS antenna broke off. Nope, I wasn't inebriated either. Was a Sunday afternoon and got Xastir to decode the positions as a local GPS source. I tossed it in my junkbox and on a whim a year and a half later I dinked
with getting the base off and wiring in and outboard GPS. Tried some Ublox chipsets and surprisingly the timing is a bit different so the GPS altitude doesn't get displayed properly on the EggFinder LCD. The information is in the raw strings though and the lat/long is dead on. Kurt