Thread: OK, so today I dared to do a damage assessment on the #Amiga 2000 mainboard.
First I saw a pulled via, a lifted trace and some legs stuck in the holes.
I tried to remove the stuck legs and noticed a lifted pad as well.
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After further investigation I saw that mostly the top side was affected.
On the lifted pad I scratched off the soldermask from the trace an soldered a piece of VeroWire to it.
Shaped it like a ?, inserted a rivet and wrapped the wire around it.
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On the second lifted trace I proceeded in a similar way.
Cut away the lifted trace, scratched off the soldermask and soldered a VeroWire to it. Inserted a rivet and wrapped around the wire.
The tricky part was to remove the wire insulation first.
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In order to be able to hammer down on the rivets, I had to use two pieces of iron as a platform.
One of them served as an anvil and counterpart to the hammer.
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Final result looks OK, still missing the new soldermask and I hope I won't mess it up when I try to remove the kapton tape.
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@RetroWizzard That repair job is beautiful though
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Thanks! 😊