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Offline Steevsee

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Re: Burnt board repair with fibreglass
« on: November 06, 2011, 11:32:34 AM »
These pics show the end result after totally filling the hole with resin and then a quick sand to remove the rough edges, once the fibreglass had hardened. 

I used a small file and a screw driver to press down that loose trace as the resin was hardening, so that I could sand back the fibreglass without totally destroying this trace.

The credit card piece and sticky tape came away easily once the resin had hardened a little, and left a nice smooth fill.

I re-drilled the two missing holes for the transistor.
(Note the special increased spacing and wobbly allignment of these holes...er, to aid with heat dissapation #@#  !@)  %.% )

I needed to clean up a couple of the solder pads that had resin partly covering them but this was fairly easy to scrape off.

Anyway I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out and hopefully I can remount the transistor easily now.

I haven't actually tried soldering to this area yet but will let you know how it goes in the next couple of days.

« Last Edit: November 09, 2011, 03:28:15 PM by Steevsee »