just recently in an effort to alter something on my motherboard i accidentally ripped out about 3mm or trace and now i need to repair it. Does anyone know an easy way to fix this??
used to do trace repair when working at celestica on sun microsystems, cisco systems board & nokia cell phone board. how wide is the trace? do you have a soldering iron not solder gun & do you have electrical solder not plumbers solder??
are the other traces right beside it because that is were it gets difficult? you need a piece of bare wire that is longer then the gap but same width as the trace. scrape off the coating on either end of the gap to bare copper of about 3 to 5mm. put solder on the exposed copper ends carefully than solder 1 end of the wire to 1 end of the gap. hold the wire down with tweezers than solder the other end of the wire & cut the rest of the wire off. use a magnifying glass to make certain no solder bridges to other taces. if so than use a sharp knife to cut the solder bridge out. once all checked all than power up the board to see what happens. if all ok than use clear nail polish to cover the exposed wire.
ok thx thats quite close to what i was going to do but i was going to try and cut the wire to size before i soldered it and that would have meant trying to solder a 3mm long peice of wire which is extremely thin thx for the help
