On 1/26/2013 11:13 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
On Sat, 26 Jan 2013 21:12:10 -0800, wrote:

I have a meter with intermittent display segments.

Maker and model number?

I've cleaned the board and (carefully) the LCD glass contacts.
Not much help.
Neither did cleaning the zebra strip.
Is there anything I can do to the zebra strip to help?
I've thought about shaving down the plastic to get more compression
on the strip...but there's no coming back from that.

If you look carefully at the strip, you'll see that the connecting PCB
traces has created an indentation in the strip. If you rotate the
strip to a different side, the indentations will not make contact.
There are 8 possible ways to reinstall the strip, 7 of which won't
work. The trick will be to find the original orientation. Shaving
the existing connector won't help because it will reduce the
connection pressure.

However, I don't think you'll have much luck getting it back in
position. Find a replacement strip and it should work, assuming
nothing else is blown/broken/trashed. Search for "elastomeric
connector strip".
http://www.fujipoly.com/products/zebra-elastomeric-connectors.html

Thanks for the link.
It's a UEI EM150 vacuum gauge.
It's been sitting for a year. I figgered it would cold flow
and make connecti0n eventually. I was wrong. ;-(

I don't think the thing is worth the postage to order a new strip.

Think I'll try squeezing the strip sideways and heating it a little.