Ok i scraped away the protective covering of the trace leading to the missing pad and exposed the copper and i'm gonna tin about a cm or so of that and solder in the cap to there. gonna do it tonight if everything pans out

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Luck won't do it and ignorance can't

George Van Eps.

You can always take some solid core wire and attach from a good portion of etch to the component if all else fails. The same can be done if you have etch on both sides of the PCB. Just be careful with the amount of heat you use in either case. Don't want to make things worse!!

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"You can't spend what you ain't got, you can't lose what you ain't never had" ~ McKinley Morganfield

I might end up doing that eventually if i'm not happy with the results of this. The scrape the trace method is good but quite fiddly

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Luck won't do it and ignorance can't

George Van Eps.