Remember this nasty wire? You get 2 points if you spotted the spider in the background!! I didn't realize that little guy was down there watching me work!
Here is the fixed version:
I trimmed the large exposed areas from the wire and I still had enough slack to simply solder the bullet connector back to the remaining wire. I got lucky but if I still needed to retain the same length then I would have just spliced in an extension. To preserve the wire that was left I put some shrink wrap over it before I connected the wires to be soldered back in place. Done deal.