"mike" wrote in message
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Repair Traces on Glass?

A chip of glass broke out of the corner of the
display on my Palm m505 PDA. It took with it
the trace that wraps all the way around to the
other side of the touchpanel.

If I short across the break with tweezers,
the touchpanel works. But I can't figger out how
to repair the break.

The trace is silver in color; I'm guessing aluminum???

I bent a short piece of #30 solid wire into a right
angle and mashed it flat to increase the surface
area. Attached it with silver-bearing conductive
paint. The contact resistance must be too high,
cause it doesn't work.


There's some conductive epoxies you could try, or that stuff you can get to
repair defroster strips on car windows might work.