A1200 into an A500 case

[Dazxy2001]

I have come across this mentioned before, but how feasible is it ?
I have a very yellow A1200 and a reasonable looking A500+ which has a bit of battery damage to the motherboard and some surrounding components unfortunately. The A500+ itself is unexpanded except for a SupraRam 2MB side cart, I was thinking about putting the A1200 motherboard along with a new A1200 keyboard into the case.
The ribbon cable on the keyboard, is this long enough to reach the interface on the motherboard once rehoused ? what with the case being a bit wider.
I will be looking to install a slimline DVD along with a 4 Way buffered interface, most likely an accelerator of sorts and CF adapter or hard drive.
Also due to my non usage of the serial port for anything other than a midi interface I am thinking about integrating it into the case also ala Atari as it connects using a ribbon cable so will be reasonably descreet at the rear.

[Dazxy2001]

Thanks for the links, I will have a read through

[Dazxy2001]

So Im guessing that the original A500 keyboard would need to be reused and wired into the A1200 motherboard..

[Dazxy2001]

Yeah, real easy to do too. The 2B motherboard has solder pads for the signals (the signals are not in the same order as on the a500 mobo), older boards require you to solder to the legs of the CIA and keyboard MCU.

http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=54550
http://eab.abime.net/showpost.php?p=697675&postcount=7

Cheers The first URL was invalid but the second one Ive bookmarked

[Dazxy2001]

I was reading another post with regarding to repairing a ribbon... what do you reckon to splicing two ribbons together to give an extension and using silver conductive paint to complete the join ?