[ale] OT: laptop flat conductor

[James P. Kinney III]

On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 19:34 -0500, Geoffrey wrote:
> joh6nn wrote:
> > Geoffrey wrote:
> > 
> >> I can't imagine purchasing a new keyboard for this laptop for this 
> >> purpose.
> > 
> > 
> > you may want to give it some more thought; i haven't ever tried it 
> > myself, but i've seen the results of other people's attempts to fix 
> > those.
> 
> Can't hurt it, it's in two pieces right now. :)
> 
> > you might also see if someone's selling just the cable, though i 
> > expect if they are, it'll cost about the same as the whole keyboard.
> 
> One end is soldered to the keyboard, so I'd have to get the keyboard as 
> well anyway.

_very_ carefully seperate the leads of each end of the break with a
razor (bright lights help this and a magnifier). get some 32 guage
enameled wire, gently sand the ends of both the bare broken and splice
wire, give a half-twist to the pair at the overlap (not much more than
1/8") and solder them. Use a piece of electrical tape across the width
of the ribbon to seperate the new splices and put the top tape on and
make sure there is sealed tape between each joint.

The big headache with this is stuffing it all back into the laptop. The
most common place for the ribbon to fail as at the bend. The new splices
will make that bend impossible. It may be needed to cut out a section of
ribbon to have just the splice wire across the bend.

Method 2. Ebay for a new keyboard :)
> 
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