PCB problem

[Schappy]

Im putting a BSIABII with a PCB from general guitar gadgets. At one of the grounding points on the board for the input jack the wire broke off. I tried to clean out the hole but it is damaged now. Where else can I place the ground wire?

[T1bbles]

If you've got a little dremmel drill thingy you can simply put another hole along the ground line and stick it in there, I've had to do that a few times myself.

[JKowalski]

Or you can scrape of some of the solder mask from the ground trace somewhere and solder it flat onto the exposed copper.


I can usually remove the wire bits that get stuck in the hole in that kind of situation. you solder the bottom, and grab onto whatever is sticking out the other side with a pair of pliers (needlenose). Sometimes, you can pull the wire while soldering and it never ever comes out - this is because the bits of wire and stuck in the HOLE not to the copper. When that happens you need to heat up the bit of wire sticking out that you were holding with the pliers and it should just fall apart. This all assumes you were using stranded wire.

If you were using solid core it should just make it easier.

And if there is no wire sticking out, you should be able to heat up the broken wire while sticking a thick piece of solid core wire into the hole, and it should clear right up.

[Schappy]

Can I just attach it to the ground on the 9V adapter?

[aleister]

just run the wire to one of the other ground points, i amm pretty sure there is more than one.

[JKowalski]

Can I just attach it to the ground on the 9V adapter?

Oh, duh!

Of course you can.  

As aliester said just stick it anywhere there's a ground point.