Yikes Ugly Botched Ribbon TE Job Need Pointing

[Slypty]

My TE looks horrible, the small connection points on the main ribbon to cartridge cable have about 1/3 of them removed, it was originally a Cap job with what looked like a few bad ribbon connections gone horribly wrong.

  What I have to work with, are good connection points on the main board, but the cartridge board ribbon solder points can't be used.  I can follow their traces back to the main points on the Cartridge (where the solder points ball out a bit), and use small Mylar wire to re-connect. 

  My question is how the hell do I do this with out F%))'('ing up the other side of the ribbon cable.. the points are so close together, I always run solder over to the other side, or if I connect one wire successfully to a solder point, if I go to the next one, the heat from my iron almost always makes the one beside it heat up and loosen its' connection.  How do I do this with out this problem?   Is there a method of doing this which is beyond my pneumonia like staggering solder skills?

[Keith Courage]

Ditch the cable altogether and just hard wire in your own wiring. it's a big pain in the ass to try to re-solder the original cable. I like to use part of an old IDE cable from a PC to do this.

I'm usually not a fan of putting glue over wiring but in this case I put some 2 part epoxy over the soldered connections when finished to make sure none of them lift overtime. Those solder points/pads on the board can lift off rather easily.

[Slypty]

Thanks.  I think I'll put some epoxy inbetween the connections before I solder, just so that the solder doesn't run off and overlap to the connections closeby.

[mario_pic]

I just install a 40 pin zif smt ribbon cable socket  cool part is after that  u can just unclip the ribbon