Lost a whole month" over one plastic bit sounds like you just refused to let it beat you, which honestly is the real problem here. Dale had the right idea, a new one costs less than three Saturdays of your time.

Same, wrote off coworking for years until a dead wifi day did me in too.

Learned that lesson on a 1900 years back when a flap issue turned out to be a pin that backed out of a cannon plug just enough to break contact in the cold. Now I wiggle every harness I can reach and watch the meter before I even think about pulling a panel. Takes five minutes and saves you an afternoon.