TIP: Cleaning header socket for .5mm thick, 1mm spacing ribb

[N_Cook]

0.5mm thick PTFE , but any soft plastic would do probably.
With a fine needle make, as closely spaced as you can, random holes at
the straight edge of the plastic, so the reverse looks like a cheese
grater. Immerse the grater-end in some meths or similar and insert a few
times into the socket. And also clean the end of the ribbon of course.

 

[Cydrome Leader]

N_Cook <diverse@tcp.co.uk> wrote:

0.5mm thick PTFE , but any soft plastic would do probably.
With a fine needle make, as closely spaced as you can, random holes at
the straight edge of the plastic, so the reverse looks like a cheese
grater. Immerse the grater-end in some meths or similar and insert a few
times into the socket. And also clean the end of the ribbon of course.

Why not just use a piece of paper or cardstock dipped in your solvent of
choice, insert and remove a couple times?

 

[N_Cook]

On 11/09/2015 22:29, Cydrome Leader wrote:

N_Cook <diverse@tcp.co.uk> wrote:
0.5mm thick PTFE , but any soft plastic would do probably.
With a fine needle make, as closely spaced as you can, random holes at
the straight edge of the plastic, so the reverse looks like a cheese
grater. Immerse the grater-end in some meths or similar and insert a few
times into the socket. And also clean the end of the ribbon of course.

Why not just use a piece of paper or cardstock dipped in your solvent of
choice, insert and remove a couple times?

I tried that first, but its too thin to retain any structural integrity
to resist the insertion force.

 

[Cydrome Leader]

N_Cook <diverse@tcp.co.uk> wrote:

On 11/09/2015 22:29, Cydrome Leader wrote:
N_Cook <diverse@tcp.co.uk> wrote:
0.5mm thick PTFE , but any soft plastic would do probably.
With a fine needle make, as closely spaced as you can, random holes at
the straight edge of the plastic, so the reverse looks like a cheese
grater. Immerse the grater-end in some meths or similar and insert a few
times into the socket. And also clean the end of the ribbon of course.

Why not just use a piece of paper or cardstock dipped in your solvent of
choice, insert and remove a couple times?


I tried that first, but its too thin to retain any structural integrity
to resist the insertion force.

makes sense, the 1mm stuff is narrow and obnoxiously small.