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EMIT repair-Broken Trace-Glue recommendation

Theother1

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I am working on repairing an emit trace. It has a single break. At the break, one side is slightly pulled of the film, the other is firmly attached. They line up well when I depress the trace down to the film, so my thought is that I MIGHT be able to repair it. I think I need to glue the loose side down first. That is, unless the trace pen has some adhesive power that I am unaware of. Looking for a glue recommendation!
 
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Thank you Chef Free. When faced with a short length that is delaminated from the film, do you find it best to glue it down or cut it off and replace with the trace pen? FWIW, I purchased a circuit board trace pen that utilizes silver. THe biggest hurdle to the use of the pen was coming up with a template. I tried the postit note idea, but that did not seem to have enough adhesive power. Next I tried page tab sticky's. Those had more adhesive power yet did not seem to tear up the other trace lines. Thank you for helping once again! Very much appreciated.
 
I glued them back down with some window defogger repair product. It's just ground up copper in clear nail paint. I cut a stencil from a 3 X 5 index card so I could make such thin lines. I can't even tell the difference in sound between a repaired EMIT and an original!
 
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