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Default Fine pitch trace repair

On Tuesday, December 4, 2018 at 5:44:01 AM UTC-5, Look165 wrote:
CircuitWorks provide conductive ink pens.

From my own experience, try first on something else.



No way to get that fine a trace without meticulous back taping, which will be a major problem with adjacent traces damaged (tape will lift CW paint).


bitrex a écritÂ*:
Due to an unfortuante jab with the head of a screwdriver it looks like I
have at least one, possibly two broken traces on this GPU card....



I keep a length of a scrapped RCA audio patch cord that is made of the thinnest gauge wire I've ever seen. When I repair boards like that, I pre-tin a strand, put a tiny bit of liquid flux over the damaged circuit area, and lay it right down over the break. I use fine pitch jeweler's screwdriver to "guillotine" the wire cleanly off the board. Once all the traces are done, I clean the flux and examine under a microscope.