Tin the broken trace. Tin a longer piece of stripped wire wrap wire. (30
gauge).
Lay wire wrap wire onto top of tinned trace. Reheat with iron. Cut excess
wire with an exacto blade.
Real tiny breaks, I just bridge with solder.
Not perfect, but reasonably clean.
-carl
At 04:46 PM 10/25/2005, you wrote:
>Never being one to assume I do everything just "oh so perfect", I
>looked over the traces with a glass to see if there are any breaks -
>sure enough, I have 5 broken traces on one board - the other two are A-
>okay from what I can see.
>
>These are tiny, .010" wide traces running parallel to other traces or
>a ground plane. The few times in the past I have hed to do repairs
>such as this, I simply laid a piece of thin wire along side the trace
>and hit it with the soldering pen - worked okay.
>
>This time, there isn't enough room to that. I know I could run
>jumpers and bypass the trace but I am guessing you guys got some
>tricks on how to do such a repair so that it looks good in the end.
>
>So, lesson #643 for me, any givers out there willing to share a few
>tricks?
>
>Chris
>
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