03-05-2026, 10:03 AM
Nice work, Rich.
I was looking for that repaired traces, eventually found them. Yea, one-sided board and, likely, the vias are not plated. Makes it easy to lift traces.
From the reflection of the light from the soldermask I cannot see if the flux residue has been cleaned off; in case rosin is still there, I recommend removing it (IPA works nice and is sold much cheaper than all those flux strippers in pressurized cans), because it is corrosive to copper and eventually results in that green.
PS. I bought a full recap kit for my Philips CD880, but never recapped it. I put the caps in my LCR meter and realized they are all good with no degradation whatsoever, so I chose to keep the originals for now.
I was looking for that repaired traces, eventually found them. Yea, one-sided board and, likely, the vias are not plated. Makes it easy to lift traces.
From the reflection of the light from the soldermask I cannot see if the flux residue has been cleaned off; in case rosin is still there, I recommend removing it (IPA works nice and is sold much cheaper than all those flux strippers in pressurized cans), because it is corrosive to copper and eventually results in that green.
PS. I bought a full recap kit for my Philips CD880, but never recapped it. I put the caps in my LCR meter and realized they are all good with no degradation whatsoever, so I chose to keep the originals for now.
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