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You not only pulled off a flawless almost impossible repair on a device most people would throw away, but also used a simple very effective cellphone camera lens hack to do it with!! Texas hat tip to you my friend!
absolutely amazing! I've just tried to solder a flex using (I think) exactly the same wire you used, so I can appreciate just how tiny those connections are. I didn't get it to work, but you've given me some tips and new hope. Thank you for taking the trouble to video tape this!! It's a great contribution.
Nice work solving problems... I liked the way you explaining how to do it also I know how it is frustrating after you thought that you have finished your work you got another problem to fix it either at last. Thanks for the video.
all the respect for your patience, persistence and practical ideas, I very much admire what you did with simple tools, i specifically liked your double sided tape idea to lay the wires in one go. Thank you for sharing.
Yay someone who shakes as much as I do! So tricky doing these repairs sometimes. Thank you for this older video. It should help me out to fix a few flex cables
it's a nice thing, to watch you repair this LCD just for the repair thick, because you can, eaven if it's may have not many use this days. Nicely done Pro.
Well done! Good to watch your vid. I have an LCD problem with a watch. Not quite the same but to see you painstakingly try to fix something just because you thought you could is oh SO good for my resolve. Many thanks. X
Wow. Very inspiring video. Just got a usb microscope for seeing and soldering smd connections. did not realize how to push the "art of soldering" to that level. nice job.
Nice work ! I have a similar repair lurking in my future. I have a 24" LCD monitor, nice high resolution, before all went to 1920. The florescent tubes went bad, and I tried to fix it, in the process I ripped a good 1/2 inch of ribbon cable, man I hate that stuff ! lol, but with your video doing exactly what I planned to fix it with, I have more confidence it may work :)
Excellent work, man! Very useful video. Thanks for all the hustle to put this on. And also - great work with the camera lens. I was surprised to see that the autofocus works even with an attachment. But agin - thumbs up!
Great job. There is another method I've used repairing similar flex to LCD's. Get some repair compound for automotive defoggers. It's a liquid solution with a copper base in it. It is similar to what the original material is on the ribbon. You can get a needle and dip it in this material and just paint on a new lead. The stuff is used for rear window defoggers and is designed just for this purpose.
I had a conductive pen somewhere that I've used before on a larger ribbon, but I have no idea where it went. I don't know how much good it would have done me in this case with the traces as small as they were and the fact that the ribbon was torn, but it wouldn't hurt to try at some point.
I've used a fiberglass pencil in the past for scraping FFC's coating off. They're a little easier to control but you still have to be careful not to go too far with them. Nice work though it was a little scary there for a second lol.
Nice work! I came here to see how you removed the coating on the cable, and I see you're also using a knife. I'm looking to re-do the soldering job on my monitor. A little tip if you're soldering very small traces, you can use the coil wire from the vibration motor of a broken phone. I learned that from Jessa Jones on iPad Rehab. She used that to repair long screw damage on an iPhone motherboard.
difficult job ..well done. if you removed the excess solder from the soldering iron then it would just draw the excess solder from the flexible PCB onto the iron's tip thus decreasng any chance of the tracks on the flexible PCB lifting off because of excess heat This technique always works for me !
Let´s see here, your kid busts the flex on the player and we get the punishment of watching you repair that thing for 22 minutes?!! Hey, its cool, its exactly what i was looking for, a true scenario with a damaged flex and a guy with extra patience to fix and explain it all in an interrupted video. So now I know what a pain in the A is to repair a broken flex.
Great Job! - Challenging task, but you pulled it off with old-school discipline. I wanted to encourage you because your effort is rare now, but was common back in the day. Most will say, "chuck it, buy a new one", but people don't realize that your perserverance is worth 10x the cost of the device. Keep it up, your son will see the effort, and will learn even better stuff. And remember, the occasional goof is an inexpensive lesson compared to the expertise of developing good methodology.
You are simple awesome!!!! Neat job!.. One suggestion though you cud have used hot air blow like those that we wud use for Plcc soldering when your bits budged off. Nevertheless absolutely amazing video
Waaa, man, ure THE man, I gotta try to fix my Trackpad flex for my macbook pro, almost 40usd, ugh, but is gonna be hardcore, its like super thin spaces, still gonna save the 40 for the new one if I cant, lol. Good video.
Nice one. Nicely done, but the catch is when you want to use the same method using wires for tablet FFCs and FPCs that are 0.1 mm wide, you often get bridges and wires getting soldered together. I have given it a try and it's a frustration. I gave it up and resorted to using some junk FFCs to carve out what I needed to solder to bridge the failed connections.
A nice skill for your own projects. But to learn this it will take much more time, and thus more repair costs than just buying a new panel for a repair job :).
Good stuff brings back memories lol used to work in an electronics factory American as well lol Jabil was the name, I'm curious when you did the repair did you use your phone the whole time if so did to have it on a stand or something? We used our microscopes 7x magnification, when you weren't happy and you kept going back and fiddling brought back memories lol sometimes best left alone, but you need to get it right lol, also someone inspected our work afterwards lol no pressure. Lastly where do you get those magnifiers for the phone do they work with any phone, Thanks enjoyed the video.
You not only pulled off a flawless almost impossible repair on a device most people would throw away, but also used a simple very effective cellphone camera lens hack to do it with!! Texas hat tip to you my friend!
Thanks!
I watched the entire vid and was like, "hell yeah", when you got it working.
absolutely amazing! I've just tried to solder a flex using (I think) exactly the same wire you used, so I can appreciate just how tiny those connections are. I didn't get it to work, but you've given me some tips and new hope. Thank you for taking the trouble to video tape this!! It's a great contribution.
You must be really patient to do that man, wow, you did awesome fix, thumbs up for you dude!
Nice work solving problems... I liked the way you explaining how to do it also I know how it is frustrating after you thought that you have finished your work you got another problem to fix it either at last.
Thanks for the video.
Dude, Just saw this, I have 35 years as a tool builder! You did awesome, Great job,,,,Thanks for putting yourself out there and doing this video.
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all the respect for your patience, persistence and practical ideas, I very much admire what you did with simple tools, i specifically liked your double sided tape idea to lay the wires in one go. Thank you for sharing.
Yay someone who shakes as much as I do! So tricky doing these repairs sometimes. Thank you for this older video. It should help me out to fix a few flex cables
Whoa...I wouldn't dare to do that even in my dreams. Great clinical precision !
I really like how you are showing us how to repurpose parts from other units to make repairs!,,, very good!,,
Amazing precision, even with the shaking👍 Great video bro... Respect from Namibia👏👏
I don't normally comment on vids, but wanted to commend you on posting a good vid and on a job well done.
it's a nice thing, to watch you repair this LCD just for the repair thick, because you can, eaven if it's may have not many use this days. Nicely done Pro.
Thank you!
you really have a patience nice work bro keep it up thats a real life situation keep the videos coming , nice work .
Well done! Good to watch your vid. I have an LCD problem with a watch. Not quite the same but to see you painstakingly try to fix something just because you thought you could is oh SO good for my resolve. Many thanks. X
Wow. Very inspiring video. Just got a usb microscope for seeing and soldering smd connections. did not realize how to push the "art of soldering" to that level. nice job.
Mcgyver....is that you? Awesome job. Loved the tiny lens. Thanks for sharing.
Superb work on the repair and the videoing to show how it was successfully done
Thanks for this video. You've inspired me to take on the task to fix LCD flex cable tabs.
Nice work ! I have a similar repair lurking in my future. I have a 24" LCD monitor, nice high resolution, before all went to 1920. The florescent tubes went bad, and I tried to fix it, in the process I ripped a good 1/2 inch of ribbon cable, man I hate that stuff ! lol, but with your video doing exactly what I planned to fix it with, I have more confidence it may work :)
Man that was a great video. I was so happy for the ending as if I was the one working on the issue. Great Job!
Thanks, man!
@@ThatElectronicsFool hey can you fix the flex cable on my phone?
Wow man, you did it. that's an amazing work!! Thanks a lot for sharing!!
Excellent work, man! Very useful video. Thanks for all the hustle to put this on. And also - great work with the camera lens. I was surprised to see that the autofocus works even with an attachment. But agin - thumbs up!
Thanks!
I love those little lenses for small stuff like this. They really come in handy.
Great job. There is another method I've used repairing similar flex to LCD's. Get some repair compound for automotive defoggers. It's a liquid solution with a copper base in it. It is similar to what the original material is on the ribbon. You can get a needle and dip it in this material and just paint on a new lead. The stuff is used for rear window defoggers and is designed just for this purpose.
I had a conductive pen somewhere that I've used before on a larger ribbon, but I have no idea where it went. I don't know how much good it would have done me in this case with the traces as small as they were and the fact that the ribbon was torn, but it wouldn't hurt to try at some point.
Great job very well done! just shows what we can do when we try.
Quite some excellence and pretty sympathetic.
Thanks for doing this video.
amazing job and perseverance! Well done!
I've used a fiberglass pencil in the past for scraping FFC's coating off. They're a little easier to control but you still have to be careful not to go too far with them. Nice work though it was a little scary there for a second lol.
It's amazing what you did. Thanks for your video.
brilliant problem solver and microsurgical skills !!
Nice work! I came here to see how you removed the coating on the cable, and I see you're also using a knife. I'm looking to re-do the soldering job on my monitor.
A little tip if you're soldering very small traces, you can use the coil wire from the vibration motor of a broken phone. I learned that from Jessa Jones on iPad Rehab. She used that to repair long screw damage on an iPhone motherboard.
Will definitely keep in mind wire from a motor if I ever need something really small! Thanks for the tip!
Really glad to hear that it worked ❤
I don't normally comment on vids, but wanted to commend you on posting a good vid and on a really well done job and i'm your fans now.
Thanks! It gives me an idea how i will my fix my broken lcd flex.
Great man. This is really going to help me out when fixing my camera.
Nice job bro thanks for the idea
Use green solder mask, baked on UV light, to fixate all in place, so it doesnt move or break.
difficult job ..well done.
if you removed the excess solder from the soldering iron then it would just draw the excess solder from the flexible PCB onto the iron's tip thus decreasng any chance of the tracks on the flexible PCB lifting off because of excess heat
This technique always works for me !
Let´s see here, your kid busts the flex on the player and we get the punishment of watching you repair that thing for 22 minutes?!! Hey, its cool, its exactly what i was looking for, a true scenario with a damaged flex and a guy with extra patience to fix and explain it all in an interrupted video. So now I know what a pain in the A is to repair a broken flex.
This was my own punishment for leaving it somewhere he could reach it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Great job!! Maybe a Valium to help with the hand shaking. 😄 haha
Great Job! - Challenging task, but you pulled it off with old-school discipline. I wanted to encourage you because your effort is rare now, but was common back in the day. Most will say, "chuck it, buy a new one", but people don't realize that your perserverance is worth 10x the cost of the device. Keep it up, your son will see the effort, and will learn even better stuff. And remember, the occasional goof is an inexpensive lesson compared to the expertise of developing good methodology.
I'm watching thsi video because I need to repair a flex wire for a tablet. Thanks!!!
you definitely deserve an award
That is very impressive sir.
I love this shit, these kind of challenges are so much fun :) good video , good work
I love learning these things!,,,
Scratching off the coating works best with a glass fiber pencil.
You are simple awesome!!!! Neat job!.. One suggestion though you cud have used hot air blow like those that we wud use for Plcc soldering when your bits budged off. Nevertheless absolutely amazing video
damn ,you really as patient as a tree ,nice surgeon job
Agree 100%
Waaa, man, ure THE man, I gotta try to fix my Trackpad flex for my macbook pro, almost 40usd, ugh, but is gonna be hardcore, its like super thin spaces, still gonna save the 40 for the new one if I cant, lol.
Good video.
You are my hero bro!
nice work, tanks for sharing it, it's inspiring.
I clapped at the end. Well done!
really well job thanks for video sharing
Nice one. Nicely done, but the catch is when you want to use the same method using wires for tablet FFCs and FPCs that are 0.1 mm wide, you often get bridges and wires getting soldered together. I have given it a try and it's a frustration. I gave it up and resorted to using some junk FFCs to carve out what I needed to solder to bridge the failed connections.
Somebody mentioned using wire from a cell phone motor before since it's really thin, but I haven't tried it myself. Might be worth a shot.
good teaching dear i have same problem with my tablet too now i can re solve it thankxxx
Great job. We'll done
Wow. Very good!
That was a real good one!!!! Congrats! what temperature do you use with your tip?
Omg. Nice job man
Nice work Bro., little tips to make your hand more steady is you need to have your side palm to be on the table or rest bench or something...
AWESOME DUDE!
Very good experience
Great job
You were doing so well
You are the real MVP
Well done
bady you have did a fine job because i am electronic technician i know how hard job it is .
A nice skill for your own projects. But to learn this it will take much more time, and thus more repair costs than just buying a new panel for a repair job :).
Cool bean man!
Great!!
So awesome!
thank you bro..👏👏
Nice work :)
many thanks again i was able to fix my flex and mya tablet is now working
Bom trabalho...
Good job...
very impressive
Thank you, now at least I know its possible!
Hands are shaking but not the motivation. Kudos
Good stuff brings back memories lol used to work in an electronics factory American as well lol Jabil was the name, I'm curious when you did the repair did you use your phone the whole time if so did to have it on a stand or something? We used our microscopes 7x magnification, when you weren't happy and you kept going back and fiddling brought back memories lol sometimes best left alone, but you need to get it right lol, also someone inspected our work afterwards lol no pressure. Lastly where do you get those magnifiers for the phone do they work with any phone, Thanks enjoyed the video.
Nice vid, thanks for that. Can you tell me what are you using in min14.56 to clean?
🌷thank you sir🌷
You are the best my friend
And I think it could be better if you use a little glow on
😉
Cool beans. Thanks for sharing. Did you consider using conductive ink at any time?
well i could have found this before... rip small tablet :/ great video
nice world mate !
The sand paper 👍🏼👍🏼
That's what I call ingenuity with the lens. I agree with Ray Antony. :)) Is there a flexible epoxy you could have used or a glue to cover the wires?
nice... im try this way to fix my flex
Nice!
Hi there, may I know what is the size or specification of thin wire that you use for repairing the flat flex LCD cable?
just watched your vid wonderfull job what tempurature was the soldering iron
I love you lense ... can you explain where you got it from .. :)
Thanks
Great
Wow great
Excellent content. By chance, could this same technique be used to repair a small tear in a flex cable for a video doorbell?
Absolutely, most traces just need a jumper wire soldered on to restore the connection.
and BTW i like even love this video because it's honest.
Voce fala demais, mas fez um belo trabalho!
I have to ask,,,is all this work worth saving the unit?,,, the Tech lesson is worth it to me!,,,