Any tips for forming a crease in the brown phenolic? type of ribbon ? Not an exact replacement of course so right angle crese in a new place. I'm thinking of heating with the barrel of a soldering iron, practising first on some scrap, folding over a soft edge with a radius, perhaps1/16 inch thick softish material. While at it, how to bend the thin white or clear ribbon, same but lower temperature ?
I'd try to bend it in the place you wanted and make a loop then heat it with a hair dryer on the edge of the loop and see how soft it gets.
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I don't think hair drier is high enough temp.
One thing I did notice, luckily, is that the bend is always on the side where the fine conductors are, not on ground side, so forcing the ground side to stretch , not the conductors, compressing them if anything.
Used a 300 degree C soldering iron barrel, no damage/ melting to the phenolic and took it in 3 stages, heat bend 1/3 way and repeated twice until a tight radius bend giving about 1/16 inch gap. Just did freehand in the end, no 1/16 inch wide edge. At 300 deg there was still a fair amount of resistance to bending, hence 3 attacks. Permanent bend and no breakage in the 0.1mm conductors
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Maybe my hair dryer is too hot? I can burn tissue with it (not to ignition) if held close to the barrel. I also have a heat gun that I use to shrink tubing if there is a lot of it to shrink as in making a
16 connector audio snake. Anyway, looks like you've got it handled.ElectronDepot website is not affiliated with any of the manufacturers or service providers discussed here. All logos and trade names are the property of their respective owners.