These connectors should be illegal

[DrG]

ok, maybe not illegal but at least with a warning for the ham-fisted.

My Jetson Nano camera ribbon connector. Look at the "locking" cap wrong and the the stub will break.





Fix is easy...buy the connector (or 3 of them ). GENTLY remove an unbroken top and GENTLY fit it into the base of the remaining connector on the board. The pic shows the broken connector top and the full new connector.

[SilverSolder]

Locking connectors often hold on for dear life, and only come apart when broken!  - very common problem when working on cars too,  it isn't just the small locking connectors that do this...

[Doolittle]

I’m a copy repair main and your absolutely right.  They get brittle with age and just crumble to be honest.  I’ve just put my finger on em and they will break.  Piss poor design.  The ones that flip up seem much better.