Psion 5mx case repair
I picked up a water damaged Psion 5x to have some spare parts available to repair the first Psion 5x I bought. Psion in pieces with screens being repaired The first Psion had a broken screen and was sold as "fixable, complete with spare screen" the "spare screen" however had clearly been poorly removed from somewhere and had missing PCB pads and traces. The currently installed screen had a cracked cable. A cracked screen cable Sigh. My "donor" machine took ages to arrive, so instead I thought I'd see how I got on with some repairs instead. First I tried repairing the cracked flex cable, with no success, so ordered some new ones from JLCPCB... Second course of action, I decided to repair the spare screen, first cleaning up the contacts then carefully adding a new PCB pad, and connecting it up. and yes, I wished I'd taken some pictures of the PCB repair before I soldered the ribbon cable back on, but after connecting the cable and firing it up... it ...