i think i screwed things up

[Clerity]

i was desoldering a piece yesterday and the metal connector came off. I was wondering is this salvage able or not?

[J0K3RX]

Desoldering what? Metal connector came off of what?   Explain yourself immediately!

[Greenmachine]

Am I the only one amused by a cryptic post coming from someone called Clerity 

[Clerity]

sorry i'm thought that was a enough to go by but when i took the piece off there was just board no little piece of metal that would connect the solder to the rest of the board and it was a trim pot
my name is clerity not clarity 
and on a totally unrelated note they need a smiling shrugging face

[therecordingart]

I've got nuthin'.

[rousejeremy]

A jumper of wire will help.

[mattthegamer463]

Is this a DIY board or a manufactured one?  Through-hole or SMT? In any case, you can use a knife to scrape away the solder resist and then solder a small piece of wire to the trace, then to the part.  I do this all the time after I tug on a hole and rip off a few cm of trace.

[Earthscum]

Is this a DIY board or a manufactured one?  Through-hole or SMT? In any case, you can use a knife to scrape away the solder resist and then solder a small piece of wire to the trace, then to the part.  I do this all the time after I tug on a hole and rip off a few cm of trace.

+1 to that. Bus wire or a clipped resistor lead or something, whatever you have handy. Too bad this trick doesn't work when you rip 'em off of solar cells. 

[Jdansti]

A sharp photo of what you are trying to describe would be worth 1K words. 

[J0K3RX]

Fiberglass pen, razor blade, x-acto knife or whatever to scrape the coating of the trace leading to whatever got pulled off. Then solder to the trace or, just follow the trace to the next point of connection and solder a jumper wire from there to the trim pot...

Do it now and report back immediately!