Hey all,
I was wondering if you could help me out of a tricky situation. I'm a novice @ soldering and in my haste ended up burning a solder pad (at least I think so). I wasn't aware of the potential to burn the metal contacts off on the pad. This is a cheap MagicForce 68 and was the reason I threw caution to the winds a bit, I'm soldering in Kailh Bronzes.
All the switches I've soldered, work aside from the spacebar and letters 1 and 5.
My plan of action after reading up on Geekhack was to unsolder the switch, and see if the switch will register using a pair of tweezers, my hopes aren't high considering there is no metal contact on both sides of the PCB (I think I burnt both off).
Here's a picture of my PCB (half the switches here are stock and half replaced)
https://imgur.com/mjJcRM7 and more specifically a closeup of my damaged Spacebar key
https://imgur.com/kUcXn2k. I believe its the leftmost solder blob/pad that is stripped of its contact but could be both since the right one is partially damaged.
How should I proceed? I read here that it's possible to solder to adjacent switches with some wire or something. I feel that might be within my capabilities.
Or is there another way I should go about this?
Kind regards.