Unfortunatly you cannot consider your method a "repair". Unless you seal the cassette door so you cannot insert a tape (thereby deleting the cassette player) the fix cannot last. No matter how expert you are at soldering one of two things will happen. Either the solder will crack at the flex or the traces will break alongside your repair. The only "cure" is to either replace and reroute the flex or make up a multi ribbon cable to replace it. Probably the most cost effective way around is to just replace the radio with either the ASI or something better. That still leaves the question of what to do with the clock. David Teitelbaum vin 10757 --- In dmcnews@xxxx, Les Huckins <jhuckins@xxxx> wrote: > If you no longer plan to play tapes and just want your display working, > here are a few tips. First of all, as everyone cautions, you must be > able to solder well above average. The traces are close together