Astro Saber write/read failure due to frame/control top?

[jmr061]

I have run across two astro sabers that will not read or write and traced the problem down to the frame/control top assembly. Has anyone else dealt with this issue? Wondering what the problem may be.

Jason

[Elroy Jetson]

Flex circuits have a limited lifespan, particularly if they get flexed a lot. They should properly be called "Flex ONCE circuits".

I remember practically beating a hole in a poured concrete wall, using the most handy blunt instrument available, which was my head,
trying to resurrect my first broken MX portable radio, not even considering the possibility that the frame flex circuit could be bad.

Once I did get the clue, I had the radio fixed immediately after I got the replacement flex and installed it. (Which, as I remember, is not a trivial
task in and of itself.)

Yeah, flexes do fail. No doubt about it. It'd be nice to have a convenient Astro Saber flex tester.

Elroy

[Batwings21]

I have had/seen many bad astro saber chassis flex's. Mostly hairline cracks where the flex folds over the frame to connect to the vocon.