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Offline metalmatt13

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Please help - Ducky 1008 - some keys stopped working - PCB chunk broken
« on: Tue, 17 April 2012, 01:13:15 »
So, about 30 minutes this big decorative metal thing with plates in it fell from above my desk and hit me and my keyboard. Now pretty much all keys left of the z key and the space bar are not working, it landed on the keypad though. So the z, a, q, 1, left shift, caps lock, tab, ~, left ctrl/windows key/alt, and the space bar do not work.

Ok as I was typing this I took another look, and a piece of the actual PCB board broke. A chip of it came out... I'm charging my phone right now, I'll post pictures soon. It's on the bottom where there was 5 straight lines were. Is there any possible way I can somehow solder it back?
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Offline Forsaken

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Please help - Ducky 1008 - some keys stopped working - PCB chunk broken
« Reply #1 on: Tue, 17 April 2012, 02:12:40 »
Quite possible. You'd need to sand/scrape off any varnish/plastic that's on circuit board traces near the break, and get some fine hookup wire, and just lay the hookupwire flat against each trace and solder it down, solder the same wire to the corresponding trace on the other side of the break the same way. Check both sides of the board for traces, could be some broken on the other side too. If they're very fine traces, you'll need a steady hand and make sure the wires and traces are nice and clean so the solder sticks, fine sandpaper should take care of the cleaning.
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Offline lucidlts

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Please help - Ducky 1008 - some keys stopped working - PCB chunk broken
« Reply #2 on: Tue, 17 April 2012, 07:42:01 »
hmmm, i know some soldering techniques but pretty much interested to know how to fix the broken PCB.
Once I saw a post in a china forum where the thread starter posted a series of pictures of him fixing a Filco MJ2 with a broken PCB caused by courier terrible handling.
IF the PCB is not badly damaged, you could try to solder the broken copper traces back together with the help of copper wires.
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Offline mbc

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Please help - Ducky 1008 - some keys stopped working - PCB chunk broken
« Reply #3 on: Tue, 17 April 2012, 08:29:30 »
just identify the broken traces and bridge them
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Offline metalmatt13

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Please help - Ducky 1008 - some keys stopped working - PCB chunk broken
« Reply #4 on: Tue, 17 April 2012, 14:15:54 »
Here is an image, a little blurry, but it gets the point across.

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Please help - Ducky 1008 - some keys stopped working - PCB chunk broken
« Reply #5 on: Tue, 17 April 2012, 14:20:20 »
No need to fix the PCB.  The traces are straight and would be easy to bridge with some wire wrap wire.  Looks like the PCB is double-sided.  Might need help on the other side as well.
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Please help - Ducky 1008 - some keys stopped working - PCB chunk broken
« Reply #6 on: Tue, 17 April 2012, 17:33:36 »
Quote from: rknize;577171
No need to fix the PCB.  The traces are straight and would be easy to bridge with some wire wrap wire.  Looks like the PCB is double-sided.  Might need help on the other side as well.


Alright, I'm not sure it's double sided though. The other side is black, and on the piece that broke off, it has a little white arrow on it.
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