Due to financial constraints, the hack will not be attempted on one of the newest clamshells (SLC-3000, SLC-3100, SLC-3200) unless you are willing to offer me one.
The first problem encountered is the different size for the screen connectors of the SL-6000 screen, as you can see on this picture of a SL-6000 screen next to a SLC-700 motherboard with the apparent screen connectors.
As you can see, there are 2 boards on each side of the screen. The left
board seems to be an inverter board. Looks like the connector size is
closer to the SL-6000 connector. However, There is an additional 2 wires
connector going to the right hand part, which is embedded inside the
SL-6000 screen as you can see on the zoom of the connectors.
Therefore my next step is to find someone with a broken C7xx display who could
donate the full display, to try to extract the flat connector and the
two side boards.
I will then attempt to connect the SL-6000 display to the side-boards, but it should fail, due to the 2 wires working differently on each model. I have to study the broken C7xx display to see how these 2 wires work - maybe the connector is fully identical, and the 2 wires seen on the picture is just a convenient way to bring say power to the right side board?
The first option is to cut open the SL-C7xx screen, extract its FPC cable, do the same to the SL-6000 screen and put inside the SL-C7xx FPC cable.
An alternative could be to try and cut the SL-6000 connector extreme end: if the pins have the same function and are in the same order, considering the 2 wires are on the extreme end of one side, they could be cut and wired to the right hand board.
Yet there is another problem then: since the connectors come from different sides of the screen, they may never reach the left and right side boards if the flat cables are too short.