I don't see how a short or open in the flexiprint cable (about the only faults that could occur as a result of your repair) could cause the machine to stay on all the time. Are you
sure the on/off swtich contact is correctly positioned in the slider -- sometimes it jumps out when the logic assembly is clipped in place.
Then there can be a short between the pads of the on/off switch on the 'PCB'.
Getting back to the flexiprint, I had to repair the one in my 32C (same fault). I cut off both ends of it. Then I took the machine apart, and traced the tracks of the flexiprint strip to components on the PSU PCB. I took a length of 3-way ribbon cable (torn from the edge of a wider piece -- the sort of stuff you use to make floppy disk drive cables, etc) and soldered the cores to the appropriate points on the PSU board. I cut it to length and soldered the other end to the battery contacts and rivets on the
battery terminal PCB. I then put the machine back together. Worked first time, unlike my previous attempts to repair the flexiprint by soldering it together.
Re: HP-33E Parts
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