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Fixing the Sony MSAC-M2 Memory Stick Duo Adaptor

Clarification
In case you are wondering why "adapter" is spelled as "adaptor" in the title, that is the way Sony named the MSAC-M2 as shown in the photo below.

My wife has got a tendency to break my electronic gadgets. I don't know how she does it, but she manages to find a way.

I've had four or five of these Sony MSAC-M2 Memory Stick Duo Adaptors and they have always worked fine. Two days after I gave my wife one of these adapters for her use, she brought it back to me. "It don't work", she said. Sure enough, a Memory Stick Duo won't slide all the way in.

Intrigued, I put her broken adapter in my fix bin and handed her another one. I wanted to see how she broke this simple device. After all, you just insert a Memory Stick Duo and away you go.

The aluminum cover on the Sony MSAC-M2 Memory Stick Duo adaptor is held on by two plastic locking tabs. One of them is shown in the photo below. Use an X-acto knife to slice away both locking tabs and the cover will slide right off.

The photo below shows the inside of the Sony MSAC-M2 Memory Stick Duo Adaptor.

Cross-Reference
The Sony MSAC-M2 Memory Stick Duo Adaptor is simply a pass-through adapter; the regular Memory Stick and the Duo are pin-to-pin compatible. See "Accessing Memory Stick Duo Directly in a Memory Stick Reader" article elsewhere on this site.

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