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Could you make a sort of soft sprung mount inside the exposed finger-tab piece, perhaps some cable sleeve and hotmelt glue each side, Then if/when the original hinge end fails , remake with some hotmelt glue at that end. Hotmelt string details on my tips files, off below

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To reduce breakage of those little tabs, you could get some heat-shrinkable tubing that is just barely big enough to make it over the connector (You can stretch it a little by pushing it down over the tip of a needle-nose pliers and forcing the jaws open slightly...) and then heating the end of the tube that's away from the connector, to shrink it. That gives you a sleeve you can slide down over the tab.

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Don't they usually break at the plastic bending non-hinge hinge?

Yeah, but that's because the get snagged and bent around the wrong way.

Jeff

So the heatshrink thing was just a pouch for stowage when knocking about in the spaghetti in carrying cases etc

Basically yeah, it keeps the free end of the tab from getting snagged and bent around the wrong way. And subsequently breaking off.

Jeff

Yep. To reduce breakage. It just a quick-and-cheap way to provide what some commercially-made=20 cables do: A cover over the open tip of the tab, gripping the cable=20 behind the connector, so the connector doesn't snag on things when you=20 pull the cable out from behind somebody's desk.

Now, if somebody could prevent VGA connector screw-knobs from snagging=20 on things, the world would be a better place.

Easy. I have a few pieces of vinyl chemistry hose in my wiring box. For DE-15/HD-15 connectors, it's about 6" long. I slide each end over the screws and tywrap the middle to the cable. I then pull it through the hole, wire bundle, wire tangle, or (cringe) conduit as needed. However, I don't leave it that way after installing it.