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Originally Posted by Akira
Usually I am all in for replacing connectors, but in this case, you have to work with a fucking shitty membrane. How do you even solder to it? Its a terrible thing to manipulate.
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Sorry, maybe I didn't explain it well enough - I didn't solder to the membrane. I soldered the cable to the original white socket, which was now separate from the motherboard. The other end of this cable then got a female pin strip header, and the motherboard got the male equivalent via a short flying lead. This meant that, once I attached the membrane to its original socket, it never had to be removed again. This is very similar to the Amiga 500, which uses a membrane for its keyboard too, but you don't need to disconnect it to remove the keyboard. Instead, you disconnect the pin header.
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A new membrane that connects to a pCB with a normal cable would be a godsend.
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A membrane always needs a contact connection, but my suggestion means that this connection doesn't need to be disturbed, meaning it shouldn't wear out.