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Fixing Traces?

2005-10-25 by lcdpublishing

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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