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PSA: Watch out for those tiny ribbon cable clips on modern laptops
Last month, I was working on a Dell XPS 13 from 2021 and the webcam cable clip snapped when I barely touched it. The plastic was super brittle and the replacement part took two weeks to arrive from a supplier in Texas. Has anyone found a good source for these, or a trick to get them off without breaking?
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corar781d ago
Remember thinking those clips were no big deal until my last repair. I totally get what @linda_kelly17 means about them feeling designed to fail. Used a plastic spudger and heated it a tiny bit with a hair dryer on low, which actually helped a lot. Still broke two before the third one came off clean. Now I order a spare clip with every other part just in case.
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Ugh, that reminds me of the headphone jack ribbon on my old laptop. I swear the clips are designed to fail on the first try. Ended up just leaving it disconnected because the part was impossible to find.
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