Removing film cables from connector from Lumix digital camera.

That's good news -- especially after I gave you such a bad time.

I sincerely hope it continues to work properly. Too often, products "play nice" while you're messing with them, then revert when you leave them.

I had a PC like that once. Had to take all of the bits off the motherboard every 6 months or so or it would crash like fury! The story was that heat cycling allowed a little bit of "oxide" to form on some contacts which gave an intermittent contact. Pulling apart and reassembling wiped the contacts clean - for 6 months!

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Whenever I come across non-ZIF ribbon terminations I always wrap about 4 turns of proper cloth reinforced upholstery tape (not duck/duct tape) , half inch wide, around the ribbon before re-inserting it, and then leaving it in place

Ditto for the Apple ][. Most of the chips were socketed, and temperature cycling gradually caused them to work loose. I had to periodically shove them back down. Skrunch, Skrunch, Skrunch! Not at all prepossessing.

Thanks for the great tip.