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

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

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Cydrome Leader

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

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N_Cook

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

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Cydrome Leader

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