Repairing broken ribbon cable
Notebooks and laptops have lots of ribbon cable. If you are not careful, you will damage one of them. I damaged a ribbon cable connected to a touchpad of my Compaq Presario C700 because I did not release the lock to the ribbon cable connectors.
After waiting for a few months, waiting for a conducting epoxy glue which did not work anyway, I tried a simple technique.
I trued to glue the back plate of the ribbon cable using epoxy and waited for 24 hours for it to cure but it was not strong. The solution is just a double tape. The fitting is tight but this makes the contact much better.
To repair the broken ribbon cable, I just cut off the broken part, glue the back plate using double sided tape, and file the insulator until the copper conductor appears.
I tried to use a knife initially but it took so long. I recalled reading a tip where he files some parts of the ribbon cable in order to use the conducting epoxy glue. Once I started filing, I notice that we do not need anything else because the expose ribbons are good conductors to the contacts.
It worked immediate. I finished in just 15 minutes.
After waiting for a few months, waiting for a conducting epoxy glue which did not work anyway, I tried a simple technique.
I trued to glue the back plate of the ribbon cable using epoxy and waited for 24 hours for it to cure but it was not strong. The solution is just a double tape. The fitting is tight but this makes the contact much better.
To repair the broken ribbon cable, I just cut off the broken part, glue the back plate using double sided tape, and file the insulator until the copper conductor appears.
I tried to use a knife initially but it took so long. I recalled reading a tip where he files some parts of the ribbon cable in order to use the conducting epoxy glue. Once I started filing, I notice that we do not need anything else because the expose ribbons are good conductors to the contacts.
It worked immediate. I finished in just 15 minutes.
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