R1 Palm Rest Ribbon Cable mangled, replacement?

I mangled the cable that provides connectivity to the power switch/led lights along the top of the palm rest assembly.. The main ribbon cable and now it's completely ruined, even after trying to repair, the pins are broken and I snipped the bad portion off hoping I could peel back more cable but it's impossible..

Can this ribbon cable be replaced or am I forced to buy a whole palm rest assembly with ribbon cable? I can only find the palm rest with touchpad assembly as a whole.. used they are going for about $50.. ugh. This used M11X R1 is going to end up costing me as much as a R3 new by the time i'm done :/

 

You can take some light sand paper and sand one side of the cable to expose wire to plug back in. I have used this method on many 7 inch car audio head units.

 

Thats a good idea, i'll try that!

 

Same principle but I use one of these : Fibre / Fibreglass Abrasive Cleaning Pencil & 5 Refills: Amazon.co.uk: Electronics

You might find the new end is a bit thin to make decent contact. In this case I usually superglue a thin piece of plastic packaging cut to size with scissors.

 

I have had the same thing happen, I used some scotch tape on the other side of the cable.

 

mate, check this: HP DV6000 DV9000 AWM 20624 80C VW-1 Ribbon Cable 15CM | eBay UK

I think m11x uses the same cable (check how many pins does it have), there are plenty of AWM cables on ebay

 

Dell lost one of my rubber bumpers on the palm rest during a depot repair and sent me an entire palm rest assembly to install myself. I just sent my old one back before seeing this.

Anyway, I noticed that the LED/power board was a different manufacturer and even the cable was slightly different, though, compatible.