![]() This then left me with leads and anchors poking through the board still anchored with solder. I first removed as much solder as I could from all 4 through-board leads and the through-board anchor tabs, then I used a pair of needle-nosed pliers to break the leads in the rear of the port, then finally used the pliers to break the port off of the board by bending back and forth until the anchor tabs broke. ![]() To be honest, cleanly removing the USB port from the hub board was the hardest part of the entire mod. I then soldered wires in place of the port (26 gauge ended up being just about perfect. (I practiced this on one of the two ports I later cut off of the hub's board entirely. The first thing I did was to desolder and remove one of the USB ports. You can see from the picture above how the two rightmost ports have no vital circuitry anywhere near them.
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