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Sensibility and health hazards of reflowing computer PCBs in a domestic oven

This is a bit of a fringe question, SE-wise, but I think EE is the best place to ask it. Some acquaintances of mine had a problem with their laptop - the graphics card stopped working. They've ...
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Cleaning Circuits with Compressed Air

I've been arguing with a colleague whether it is a sensible solution to clean dusty PCBs with compressed air. While I think this is the best solution (nothing touches the PCB), he claimed that ...
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Repairing broken trace on commercial board

A friend has a USB flash drive on which the SMD USB connector broke off. When it broke, it pulled the pad traces off the board with the solder. We are trying to think of a way to reconnect the ...
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Repair a burned trace on a PCB

I've got a PCB (from a multimeter) that apparently has 2 traces on the PCB burned away. How they did it, I don't exactly know, but the traces are really gone completely. The problem is however, that ...