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Hi guys ;) I’m not sure if this is the right place to ask this but….. I’ve done a bit of micro-soldering in the passed so i thought i would attempt this repair. I’ve stated gently scraping at the board so that i can see the tracks but I’m a bit unsure if I’ve gone too deep as from the pictures and videos I’ve seen online they seem to go very deep. here is a couple of pictures sowing both screw holes:
And this is the board looking at it with the naked eye:
As you can see i gently removed to top coating (black) but now there’s the copper layer and im unsure if i should keep going as there is a kink of look of some tracks but then this could just be the effect of remove the top layer. So have i gone too far or should i keep digging ?
The goal is to expose the traces, so you can see which ones are broken and repair them. So you don’t want to go any deeper than exposing the copper traces, but you do need to make sure you expose enough to see or test if each trace is still connected. Then you would reconnect any traces that are broken. Normally it is the bottom right screw hole that has damage, since that’s where the short screw goes. It is very possible to damage traces if you dig too deep, so you just need to be very careful to remove only enough to expose the trace.
Thanks for the reply. The problem I’m having is that I’m not sure if I’ve gone down too far (especially in the second picture) .
