i broked it....

[dimefan90]

thanks, i was thinking. is there some sort of metallic paint that i can put in place of the pads?

[Circuitbenders]

You can get silver conductive paint that you can use to repair circuitboard tracks but i don't think you can solder to it and its not cheap for how little you get. I'd go with the bridging it with wire technique.

[dimefan90]

ok. so i have all the buttons working and most of the keys, but the last 12 wo'nt work because i can really find where to solder them.

it would have only been the last 4-5 but i accidentally cut the track for the other 8 while looking for a solder point.

[dimefan90]

how do i repair a track. i scratched one of them and now it is broken.

[Circuitbenders]

Scratch off the green overlay on both sides of the break to expose the copper track itself and then just either try to put some solder across the gap or get some thin metal like the cut off leg of a resistor, and solder it to the exposed copper on either side of the break.

[Tyler1144]

If the solder pads have come off completely just take a wire directly from the IC pin to wherever it was meant to connect to. On a single sided board like the SA's this should be a simple matter of just following the circuit tracks from the IC pin to wherever they were meant to go.

Sometimes you dont even need to find where it goes, just scratch off a small square of green thats covering the track up and solder to that