82240B printhead fried itself in a puff of smoke

[rprosperi]

(03-24-2020 12:29 AM)twoweims Wrote:  I have repaired a couple of these and neither had this part inside. It looks like a tool that was fabricated by the previous repair person to ease the removal of the flat flex cable and was left inside by mistake.

LOL, that's a great guess! It looks exactly like the kind of 'tool' all the instructions describe for inserting into the flex cable to release the end.