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Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com, "Michael Buchner"
<buchnerelectronics@...> wrote:
>
> If you have already opened it this far, the repair is easy. The
black traces is corrosion and the malfunction is open circuits, check
and locate with voltmeter. But you can mend the lines with liquid tin
or silver paint. The paint is available in radio shacks or similiar.
> If you need some posts for soldering your wires to, shoot some
copper- plated staples into the wood, solder your wires to the staples
and "connect" the tracks of the flex circuit board also with the
paint. The current is not high, so a thin layer of paint is ok.
> Good luck
Thanks to this good advice and about 2 hours with the conductive
paint Multimallet no366 is fully functional once again. not the
easiest stuff in the world to use that paint but well worth the £5.
Thanks Michael, advice much appreciated.