Circuit Board Repair


[Wayne] sent along this interesting read on circuit board repair. Even if you’re not uh, repairing, it’s interesting to get some ideas for modification techniques. Pictured is a DIP IC that’s been placed upside-down over the old one with a set of jumper wires. I can only aspire to produce solder joints that look that nice. Good stuff.

Just so the Unofficial Team-Hack-A-Day guys don’t crucify me, they too have been making their own shirts. Thanks [mastershake916].

31 thoughts on “Circuit Board Repair

  1. nice looking site, i’m half-tempted to rip it all now before it’s a pay site :P

    most of this stuff though would help me more at work where we have real PCBs, not hand-made proto-perfboards like I do at home. …but there it’s usually cheaper to just replace the whole thing.

    if you make your own boards or get them made this is one sweet guide

  2. I dont mind doing stuff like seen in the tutorial (although I’m still learning on how to remove stuff efficiently)

    But ip, thats crazy! reminds me of an article a while ago here where they removed + replaced a firewire? or some other controller on a laptop mobo.

    I’ve done laptop mobo work, but its mainly repairs because every time I fix one thing, I knock another surface mount component off :P

  3. TBH I cant remember as I did that about 3 years ago now, It was really fine transformer wire about the thickness of the human hair, with an enamel coat that I had to burn off with the iron, I think the resistors and caps were 0805 size.

    That’s about the finest work I ever did, most other reworks were with kynar wire about 30awg I think.

    I used to do some pretty amazing stuff but just build and install puters now :)

    still came in handy for the ps1 and ps2 mods :) hehe

  4. I replace power jacks on laptop mobos regularly, and one problem I’ve run into a few times is when a lead on the jack has arced so badly that it the through-hole plating is destroyed. Usually this happens with the positive pin, which is mechanically tied to the center pin of the jack, so the through-hole plating is very important for strength.

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