Vintage Simmons Drums (UK) Users Group

--- In 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.