Fixing JVC HRS9900U s-video plug?

[gzero]

The S-Video is black and white on my HR-S9900U. It appears that it may have been already altered with by its' previous owner. Can anyone confirm or deny if this blue wire is original? It looks to me that the joint is all but gone. The picture is the back of the s-video plug.

If looking from the front, top, down and pressing equally down and left on the cable the color comes back.

[lordsmurf]

None of them look right. I don't recall seeing wires like this jutting out of boards on the 9600-9900 series. Worse yet, I don't think I've ever seen a board that was burnt with such crappy solder work.

[gzero]

After I fix the color issue would the bad work previously done affect image quality? Now I am questioning everything about the deck and my lack of knowledge on this subject doesn't help any. How can I test the image quality? I have seen screenshots here but all source source files that I could record to a tape have had broken links.

[NJRoadfan]

The deck has been repaired using a patch wire to bypass the trace on the board. It anything its a cold solder joint or dodgy work near R916. Re-flowing the joint with some fresh solder and flux should do the trick, just watch the heat on the iron. The repair should be tested with a continuity tester found on a typical multimeter.

[gzero]

I assume I should remove the wire after re-flowing the joint?

[NJRoadfan]

Leave the wire. There is a possibility that trace is broken from stress.

[volksjager]

that is very shoddy work -
if you cant fix it dont despair - there are plenty of 9500-9900 decks out there with bad dynamic drums
you can pick one up cheap with a bad DD and swap yours into it