Many thanks for Bushman for those images. My camera had been dead for a long while but I finally found an affordable PCGA-UVC11A (ebay, $50) to use for the fix.
Like what Globalagogo said, it was also easier for me to put the cable in before screwing down the censor into the casing.
So now my camera is functional again! Mark this day, if/when (i hope now) this new censor fails, I’ll post it’s life span. My first one must have survived a year before going completely white.
cheers