RE: Crashed my TRANSMITTER looking for parts.
Iwould suggest shiping it to Futaba or RCSouth for repair. Their experienced eyes will tell if something else is broken and with their experience, the will get it fixed without damaging anything else, and you will get a full tuneup on the TX to boot. Your bottom line cost will be little above the parts cost I'm guessing.
I'm not saying you couldn't do it yourself, Iknow I've repaired small electronics some professionaly. The key though is having the right tools, solder suckers, lifting tools, and who knows what special tool #999 is needed. And, if there is another part needed laterbesides the one you ordered, well then you are out the time.
Say the parts are interchangable, some of the old TX's that are setting on shelfs around the world may provide a parts wearhouse for you. It may be woth seeing if one of your buddys doesn't have one that you could try for parts. Besides it would give you a test run of tearing things down with no penilty if things didn't go well.
Don