<story><title>Repairing a tiny ribbon cable inside a 28 year old IBM ThinkPad 701c</title><url>https://blog.jgc.org/2023/03/repairing-tiny-ribbon-cable-inside-28.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jacquesm</author><text>I make repairs to cables like these with a very simple method: glue the two pieces together with superglue and some overlap, a few mm will do. Then use conducting glue (with silver particles in it) to restore the connection. Use a tiny brush and a microscope to apply the glue. If the currents are low (as they usually are with cables like these) this will work just fine and give a quick and long lasting result.</text></comment>
<story><title>Repairing a tiny ribbon cable inside a 28 year old IBM ThinkPad 701c</title><url>https://blog.jgc.org/2023/03/repairing-tiny-ribbon-cable-inside-28.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>somat</author><text>A deserved &amp;quot;Well done&amp;quot; to the author, a good end to a tricky job. I wonder if it is possible to solder the two halves of a flex circuit directly together? That is, is it possible without the junction wires?&lt;p&gt;Scrape the top of one, the bottom of the other, apply solder pads to both sides then align the two and reflow the solder.</text></comment>