At 11:25 AM 6/6/2012, pickle vanagon wrote:
>This small hole idea sounds great for repairing the foil.  But I
>plan to eliminate mine altogether and make a wiring harness like
>Jarrett did here:
>http://www.kpcnsk.com/?p=138
>
>(for all the plugs, I figure I'll just cut their rectangles out of
>the foil, and solder wires directly onto the metal tabs)

Gotcha.  The DB-25 is an excellent plug for the purpose.

>I figure the result should be much more reliable (and trivial to
>repair if any problems developed).
>
>Not a fan of the foil...

The flexible circuits are getting past their sell-by date, especially
the hot-weather ones.  We don't see so  many here in New England with
the polyester separating from the copper foil, but it does
happen.  And once it does it's a mess.

Yrs,
d