Novice2000
New Member
I have a printer in which I found a loose switch on a small circuit board. The wires which go through the circuit board and are soldered on the other side have pushed further out and broke the connections. Not only the round part were the solder sticks, but they have also taken part of the wire part of the circuit board as well. The long skinny, silver pathway. I'm not sure what the technical name for it is, but it's the round part of the silver pathway that the solder sticks to as well as the long skinny silver pathway.
The problem is that I can't solder this back together. You know how the solder only sticks to the round parts where the wires from the other side stick out but stops at the edges of this round part? Well the long skinny, silver part of the pathway has like a clear coating on it which prevents solder from sticking to it. I have tried to burn this stuff off with the soldering iron with no luck.
How do I make a connection again on this broken skinny, silver pathway on the circuit board?
The problem is that I can't solder this back together. You know how the solder only sticks to the round parts where the wires from the other side stick out but stops at the edges of this round part? Well the long skinny, silver part of the pathway has like a clear coating on it which prevents solder from sticking to it. I have tried to burn this stuff off with the soldering iron with no luck.
How do I make a connection again on this broken skinny, silver pathway on the circuit board?