Star Tech Journal

STAR*TEcH
Journal
July 1996
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REVITALIZE YOUR VIDEO!
With STAR*TECH Journal's
step is to remove this carbonized material. Scrape
the stuff away with your X-acto knife, pointed
probe, small screwdriver tip. Even if it makes a
hole all the way through, all that carbon has to go.
Any thing you CAN scrape away MUST be
scraped away. Don't be afraid. Good PC board
material is sturdy and stands up to scraping with a
hobby knife. Anything that moves has to leave.
VIDEO
BRIGHTENER
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Reclaim those old and faded
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Once you clean up the board, you have to restore
the circuitry. One usual casualty of a fire is the
tracework, it just bums away. Sometimes traces are
left in mid-air. Tempting, but don't use them. Trim
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• Disco
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off loose trace ends with a sharp X-acto or razor
blade. (Hey, they're only a couple of bucks, get an
X-acto. I have even seen them at the Dollar Store.)
Directions Also Included For:
Sony, Hitachi, GE & Toshiba
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Repair as much of the tracework as you can di-
rectly, in the same way as repairing a cracked
board. Some traces are best replaced by jumper
wires. Just make sure you are taking care of the
just-passin' -through stuff. That is, the trace that dis-
appeared may have gone to a transistor leg, but it
may have continued on to somewhere else, or the
component that burnt might have erased a trace
that wasn't related but had the misfortune of pass-
ing underneath. You could leave a whole section
of the board without ground if you aren't careful.
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