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The ribbon cable connector that goes to the screen, from the main board seems to be broke and wont keep the cable firm in place. Anyway to fix this?
 

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If you have a decent rework station and proper tools and are good at fixing flex cables with a solder station then yeah. I have worked on many flex cables before and it is very time consuming and pia. More of I wanted to see what I can do and test self. While it worked it was very time consuming and not ideal but a good self test. It is more ideal and cheaper to either buy a refurbished housing with the electronics or find a person who is selling them individually on ebay or actual vendors who still have the parts.

If it's the main rf board it could be fixed but you'd need the part and reflow station. I have not seen them individually anywhere in some time. If you have stuff laying around you could attempt a switcheroo but it isn't for the faint of heart working on the radios one foul and it's done. If it's a hobby radio and older you could plug the flex in and hot glue it lol seen that done before when person didn't want to spend any money.
 
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Mol account if you have one could also yield a result. Though you would need to do some solder rework preferebly with a reflow station but it's possible to do it the other way.
 
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