Before solder mask was readily available, we used clear nail polish to cover pcb repairs. It works quite well but gets some strange looks from customers when doing in home service.
Just started watching your videos and I really appreciate how much you fully explain everything you are doing and why. Videos like this are extremely useful and it's rare to find such thorough explanations.
very good sir, i wished i could tell you everything good that I have learned watching your video, but its just too many to say. very well done and thank you so much for sharing your talent and knowledge.. I am honored to be one of your subscriber. this may be the 4th or 5th comments i have made since youtube started.. lol.. its because you are so deserving sir..
another awesome video mate, finally got round to building my gba with the parts I ordered recently. it looks mint and works perfect, honestly keep up these videos they help alot of people 👍 it's also good for people to see how you guys work gives people more confidence to send in to you or to work on themselves. keep the great work 👌
Can you use nail polish to insulate exposed circuit connections? Are there any disadvantages or hazards? Thanks for the video you all did a brilliant job! Thanks
Amazing video! I recently bought a pokemon pinball but i had battery leak, when i cleaned the battery acid the game just died on me, i think i broke one of those hole traces that go on the other side of the board, and im gaining experince to fix this :)
Great video! Is there such a thing as a solderable UV cure resin? I'm thinking of a resin with a high percentage of fine powdered copper (tin, silver, lead, etc.) that once cured, could be abraded to remove the resin and expose the solder wettable metal. At this point, it would not have reliable electrical continuity. You could then lay a line of solder on top to create reliable continuity. I would like to have something like this to create traces as opposed to running enameled wire. A product like this could be used to prototype PCBs by hand or with a 3D printer.
Interesting stuff !!! What type of microscope do you use in your videos ? Or which one do you recommend ? Can you get a good one for less than 50£ or between 50£ and 100£ ?
The ones I use in video are thousands. The ones I use at work are AmScope about £300. Anything less and you will be limited to digital USB or monitor scopes and they are all about the same quality when your at that price range
i have a Atari Lynx 2 that has a broken pad (it came off with the mosfet) of Q12 (the S 'left' side, so not the G side), to what pin do i have to connect the leg of the mosfet its 'S' side with a wire? - because there isnt any room to scrape of the green around it to fix the pad.
Very nice, i did something like this to a gameboy color game a long time ago. It was the Super Mario Bros. Deluxe game. I had it in storage and one day i found all my old games and put the game in my GamBoy Color and turned it on, and nothing. Just a white screen. I was pretty sad because i put in alot of hours on that game, so i began to investigate the motherboard. Just above the pad contacts where the game pads connect to the pad contacts on the GameBoy there was a break on one of the copper trace. How that came to be, I have know idea because it looked like something scrached or scrape it there. The plastic would protect that part of the board but either way i just took some thin wire and my sodder, made the connection, turned it on and it works!
Before solder mask was readily available, we used clear nail polish to cover pcb repairs. It works quite well but gets some strange looks from customers when doing in home service.
This video is so good at explaining how to think about trace repair. Have done a couple (amateur) but this just leveled me up tenfold!
This video deserves more likes!
Great vid, I'm a novice a soldering and these tips are expanding my knowledge greatly.
I never would have thought to use solder wick as a solder pad! Genius!
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Just started watching your videos and I really appreciate how much you fully explain everything you are doing and why. Videos like this are extremely useful and it's rare to find such thorough explanations.
Glad they are useful. Definitely spread the word to help the channel grow and help more people
You're an extremely good teacher
Thanks
@@RetroSix do you have any videos on ribbon cable repair?
@cod4Rlp yes. Somewhere on this page ha
im so glad i found this guide on understanding multilayers in double sided pcbs and how to bridge and repair the proper points
very good sir, i wished i could tell you everything good that I have learned watching your video, but its just too many to say. very well done and thank you so much for sharing your talent and knowledge.. I am honored to be one of your subscriber. this may be the 4th or 5th comments i have made since youtube started.. lol.. its because you are so deserving sir..
another awesome video mate, finally got round to building my gba with the parts I ordered recently. it looks mint and works perfect, honestly keep up these videos they help alot of people 👍 it's also good for people to see how you guys work gives people more confidence to send in to you or to work on themselves. keep the great work 👌
I’m gonna watch this to fall asleep. You have such a calming voice
Great video - really went through a lot of stuff and explained it really well. Top job.
Excellent instructional video. Thank you for sharing the repair.
That was a very informative video. You should add a thanks button. I'd easily cough up a couple of quid for that advice
Outstanding exclamation good work mate, keep doing what you’re doing
Can you use nail polish to insulate exposed circuit connections? Are there any disadvantages or hazards? Thanks for the video you all did a brilliant job! Thanks
Very educational video ! Thanks for sharing !
This is the best explanation i've seen so far!!!!
Nice video as always ❤ these step bye step tutorial / explanation is really good. thanks
Your welcome
Amazing video! I recently bought a pokemon pinball but i had battery leak, when i cleaned the battery acid the game just died on me, i think i broke one of those hole traces that go on the other side of the board, and im gaining experince to fix this :)
Great video! Is there such a thing as a solderable UV cure resin? I'm thinking of a resin with a high percentage of fine powdered copper (tin, silver, lead, etc.) that once cured, could be abraded to remove the resin and expose the solder wettable metal. At this point, it would not have reliable electrical continuity. You could then lay a line of solder on top to create reliable continuity. I would like to have something like this to create traces as opposed to running enameled wire. A product like this could be used to prototype PCBs by hand or with a 3D printer.
Nothing I know of. Typically you just CNC or laser printer etch PCBs for home prototypes
Thank you so much. I learned a lot
What do you recommend people look for in a grinding pen? What model do you use?
We sell it retrosix.co.uk/PCB-Grinder-p453387487
Thanks for this video, I've learned a lot from it.
Your welcome
Do the places that have copper on the top layer have a function? In terms of traces
Tinning pins beforehand helps a lot .............
Interesting stuff !!!
What type of microscope do you use in your videos ? Or which one do you recommend ? Can you get a good one for less than 50£ or between 50£ and 100£ ?
The ones I use in video are thousands. The ones I use at work are AmScope about £300. Anything less and you will be limited to digital USB or monitor scopes and they are all about the same quality when your at that price range
i have a Atari Lynx 2 that has a broken pad (it came off with the mosfet) of Q12 (the S 'left' side, so not the G side), to what pin do i have to connect the leg of the mosfet its 'S' side with a wire? - because there isnt any room to scrape of the green around it to fix the pad.
To the positive of D10 or D11
@@RetroSix Thanks for your answer. worked great.
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yeah not so much
If I did this for my work they'd fire me
Very nice, i did something like this to a gameboy color game a long time ago. It was the Super Mario Bros. Deluxe game. I had it in storage and one day i found all my old games and put the game in my GamBoy Color and turned it on, and nothing. Just a white screen. I was pretty sad because i put in alot of hours on that game, so i began to investigate the motherboard. Just above the pad contacts where the game pads connect to the pad contacts on the GameBoy there was a break on one of the copper trace. How that came to be, I have know idea because it looked like something scrached or scrape it there. The plastic would protect that part of the board but either way i just took some thin wire and my sodder, made the connection, turned it on and it works!
Nice. Yeah sounds like a data or address line. Glad it's fixed again. Now you have to complete Zelda Links Awakening it's the law