[TriLUG] OT: Conductive Paint Pen
David Burton
ncdave4life at gmail.com
Sat Aug 11 16:46:38 EDT 2012
I agree w/ Alexey, if it's a copper trace: solder it.
Some years ago I had Palm Treo phone (I think it was my oft-repaired Palm
Treo 300 <http://www.burtonsys.com/treofix.html>) on which the keyboard
failed, and I found that the culprit was a cracked trace... but those
traces aren't copper, they're some kind of conductive plastic. So I bought
a little vile of conductive paint, and fixed it.
It worked great for a while. Unfortunately, the fix only lasted about 6
months, and then it needed to be fixed again. Six months after that, it
needed to be fixed *again.
*So if you can solder it, that's better.
Dave
On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Alexey Toptygin <alexeyt at freeshell.org>wrote:
> Why not just solder a jumper wire across the break in the trace? Simpler
> and more reliable, IMO.
>
> Alexey
>
>
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