[sdiy] Best way to repair traces

[Bob Weigel]

Sure David that's the way.  On cracked board situations you always want 
to go back pretty far on the trace and sometimes use fairly large guage 
wire where possible on grounds etc. and super glue the crack...  but 
where it's just a non-broken board with cut traces just any small guage 
is good usually on a thing like that where it's not high current.  Just 
scrap back far enough to get a good joint and you should be fine. -Bob

David Ingebretsen wrote:

>OK, so I am quite annoyed with myself right about now.
>
>I was making a modification per factory instructions to a MoogerFooger. One
>step was to cut a couple of traces. In addition to cutting the wrong traces,
>I also managed to mangle an adjacent trace, sigh...
>
>The "wrong" cut traces were easy enough to repair as they were connecting
>three adjacent pins on an IC. A piece of buss wire fixed that. But the trace
>adjacent to that IC is a very fine trace cut in two places.
>
>What I did was carefully scrape the solder mask off, flux it, and soldered a
>small piece of buss wire along it. Will that be a reliable fix, or should I
>have done it differently?
>
>Right now at 2:00 am, I'm not in the best frame of mind for rational
>thought...
>
>David
>
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