PS1/2 fix cable and name cable

[iLegendx]

I want your help please. I have this as you can see in the picture but I do not know what it is called and I would like you to please tell me what it is called. Also, because my blue has come off, is there a way to stick it? If not where can I find it?

 

[FAST6191]

Afraid I don't have PS1/PS2 hardware guides in front of me and have not pulled enough apart in recent times to be able to recognise that offhand.

Anyway such things are typically known as a ribbons, flat flex cables, ribbon cables or some combo of those terms. They are frequently a source of problems for those fixing devices, modding devices and otherwise. They fail in two primary ways
1) You start to lift up some of the metal tracks from the backing.
2) The whole thing moves back and forward enough that inside you get small cracks (if you have ever bent the tab of a drinks can back and forth until it snapped then same idea) and thus it no longer conducts as it should. This is also quite hard to spot visually.

The "blue" is just a plastic backing. It is there to make it a bit stronger and stop things bending (recall the cracks thing above), stop things from being inserted too far (guess what normally causes the tracks to rise up), have something to clamp to in the socket, make it a bit thicker and thus make assembly a bit easier. Sometimes it does come off but being just plastic if you can find some of the right thickness and can glue it back on with some glue that does not melt the backing above or make it too fat to fit in the hole.

The trouble comes in that ribbons can be quite custom and thus far I have not found any company that makes one off/small run custom ones (and believe me I have tried) like you have for a lot of other aspects of electronics. Theoretically you could make them at home but I have not seen anybody really do this.
To this end the source for most of them is other devices (find a dead one and if the ribbon still works then yay) or you get lucky and find a compatible one with the same number of pins (or more and cut some off) from a cheaper device*


*the reason I know that most ribbon companies don't care to speak to you unless you are ordering thousands is because just that happened to me once (several occasions actually). There was a part of a car that failed here, and a toy in a cheap shop that had a suitable one. Myself and several other burly mechanics went and rinsed every instance of that cheap shop of a given toy that day to gain a supply of ribbons.

Some do bypass things by soldering to the sockets/connectors but that is tedious at the best of times and that one does not look like an easy one.

 

[Snomannen_kalle]

I want your help please. I have this as you can see in the picture but I do not know what it is called and I would like you to please tell me what it is called. Also, because my blue has come off, is there a way to stick it? If not where can I find it?

I used superglue to glue the blue part of a PS2 ribbon cable back on once, you could try that. Very crude fix though, but it might do the job if you can find a replacement. That said, I would do what FAST6191 suggested and try to find a replacement first, and only use superglue as a last resort; I have no idea how/if the glue will affect the shielding/insulation of the flex cable

 

[The Real Jdbye]

I used superglue to glue the blue part of a PS2 ribbon cable back on once, you could try that. Very crude fix though, but it might do the job if you can find a replacement. That said, I would do what FAST6191 suggested and try to find a replacement first, and only use superglue as a last resort; I have no idea how/if the glue will affect the shielding/insulation of the flex cable

Not all superglues are made the same. However, Loctite superglue seems to be safe for most plastics. According to the packaging, there are only a couple of types of plastic it can't be used on.

 

[iLegendx]

Okay guys
Thank you very much for your help.

 

[FAST6191]

Not all superglues are made the same. However, Loctite superglue seems to be safe for most plastics. According to the packaging, there are only a couple of types of plastic it can't be used on.

Superglue is generally a trade name (though genericised in some places I think) for cyanoacrylate.
Some will have different amounts or types of drying agent which can make things very different in use but should still be the same underlying actual adhesive and thus all should have troubles with the same plastics (usually acrylics, see perspex for a common one, plexiglass for another, PMMA which is commonly seen in cars)

There are other glues and "plastic cement" that can be more suited to different uses.

Most ribbon cable and those plastic backers tend not to be acrylics and work OK with superglue, though it is the sort of thing I like to test first if I can (especially if it is a rare and hard to come by affair). Superglue is also rather easy to get everywhere and leave splotches over the contacts which then makes life that much more annoying to fix things with so I would go for others.