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Subject: How to Repair Copper Trace on PCB

From: Brian Symons <brians@...>
Date: 2014-07-18

As others have mentioned, you can just use some wire to bridge the gap.
You can also use "soder wick" desoldering wick if it needs higher capacity.

There are lengths of different width track available or sheets with tracks, pads etc that you an get for PCB repair but they are expensive.
You can get a bit of copper foil & cut it to width & lap solder it on.

The last option is to get anoth PCB which has some tracks of the same with. 
Solder a piece of copper wire on the end of a track longer than you need.
Now over heat the track with a soldering iro & use the soldered on piece of wire as a handle to lift the track off.
You now have some track for your repair.

Any deposits on the track can be carefully removed using a typewriter erasor.

Regards,
Brian.

On 18-July-2014 04:12, qz9090@... [Homebrew_PCBs] wrote:
 

I have a PCB that has a broken copper trace on it. What are some methods of repairing the trace that I could try that would be easy to perform and not break the bank?