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When you have time, I did up some "DIYs for those whom work on radios that are SINGLE-PLY (now before those empty cardboard rolls start getting tossed in my direction...) BOARDS that can have a strong light shined thru up from the foil side to illuminate the traces like a mask, so help guide you to finding the right spot to do your test.

Here's a post where I show the shining effects when you need to locate the trace to the part...

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It might help if you have something like a Panavise - handy...
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This would help hold the work while you shine for traces and other issues of embedded dirt, hairs and even solder bridges

if you can set up a means to locate those traces and check from both sides, you're well on your way to repairing this kind of work pretty easily.

<blockquote data-quote="Handy Andy" data-source="post: 782705" data-attributes="member: 52309">When you have time, I did up some &quot;DIYs for those whom work on radios that are SINGLE-PLY (now before those empty cardboard rolls start getting tossed in my direction...<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f617.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":whistle:" title="Whistling&nbsp; &nbsp; :whistle:"&nbsp; data-smilie="29"data-shortname=":whistle:" />) BOARDS that can have a strong light shined thru up from the foil side to illuminate the traces like a mask, so help guide you to finding the right spot to do your test.Here&#039;s a post where I show the shining effects when you need to locate the trace to the part...[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.worldwidedx.com/threads/cobra-29-ltd-classic-not-transmit.228821/post-624987[/URL]It might help if you have something like a Panavise - handy...[ATTACH=full]56799[/ATTACH]This would help hold the work while you shine for traces and other issues of embedded dirt, hairs and even solder bridges if you can set up a means to locate those traces and check from both sides, you&#039;re well on your way to repairing this kind of work pretty easily.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Handy Andy, post: 782705, member: 52309"] When you have time, I did up some "DIYs for those whom work on radios that are SINGLE-PLY (now before those empty cardboard rolls start getting tossed in my direction...:whistle:) BOARDS that can have a strong light shined thru up from the foil side to illuminate the traces like a mask, so help guide you to finding the right spot to do your test. Here's a post where I show the shining effects when you need to locate the trace to the part... [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.worldwidedx.com/threads/cobra-29-ltd-classic-not-transmit.228821/post-624987[/URL] It might help if you have something like a Panavise - handy... [CENTER][ATTACH type="full"]56799[/ATTACH][/CENTER] This would help hold the work while you shine for traces and other issues of embedded dirt, hairs and even solder bridges if you can set up a means to locate those traces and check from both sides, you're well on your way to repairing this kind of work pretty easily. [/QUOTE]

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