Alright. I purchased a spare VDF off paul and was attempting an install this evening
in an extra MKII and things went very bad.

First, I damaged the harness for the display board as shown in the first diagram.
It accidently caught as I was pulling the board out. That was bad, but fix-able.

Next, things turned very bad. I had removed the broken VFD by cutting the leads
near the VFD as reccomended, then removing the excess wires one by one using
two people and being very careful.

Afterwards, I started removing the excess solder. In the process thereof an entire
lead came right off the board before I could wink an eye. The damage is shown below.

I feel very sad at the moment. Where do I go from here?