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so Terran has made an awesome tech quickie episode which you can check out here on RSI also known as repetitive strain injury one of the reasons he's so familiar with this topic is because he has suffered from it quite severely at times through this process he has found that certain gear works really well for him for one reason or another one of those pieces of gear a mouse to be exact had a battery acid spill and it destroyed some of the traces on the PCB enter the silver conductive pen the coolermaster Nova touched tkl utilizes genuine Topor hybrid capacitive switches and is now available at a more affordable price click now to learn more these pens are used to quickly easily and effectively repair PCB traces or make new ones entirely you know everything from fixing a relatively simple PCBs damaged traces like we'll be doing today all the way to more complicated stuff like automotive rear window trace repair and prototyping of small devices there are two main types of silver conductive pens I really don't think these different categories have names but I'll divide them into squeeze and push mechanism and the rollerball mechanism the mg chemicals pen that I have and similar pens from brands like circuit works kegs laboratories and circuit medic all fall under the squeeze and push category I call it this because to use the pen you were instructed to squeeze the tube before actually pressing the tip onto the PCB in order to have the silver ink come out of the pen when you pressurize the bottom the roller ball pens like the electron ink get it anyways they're super cool but not really intended for use on PCBs you may be able to get them to work but it will probably be unsuccessful what they are intended for use on is paper or maybe even some forms of wood there are a ton of fun to play with and may be able to do quick tests of circuit board layout design especially if you use something like one-two-three design because you can easily integrate electron ink modules which will make things a breeze anyways Tara and I are going to try our luck with our mg chemicals pen so let's see how this goes well rested lightly on service use with adequate ventilation squeeze pin barrel adequate ventilation halation we can open the door can we get a piece of paper that I can just test this on Oh oh hello okay well there you know you lie down yeah so it's all be completely closed okay all right I'm just gonna try it right here if we've got that dead laptop so you're going to want to practice more I think on an actual PCB because you might have to test this is the one that we dropped during that commercial that's pretty good man yeah but it's still a bit too thick I think you wouldn't branch the traces that way I'm gonna start over here I might have created a bit of a bridge there okay let's try to scrape that back oh hey those are perfect yeah you're not using an esd-safe tool sir oh okay I'm not gonna blow why because that would be dumb wouldn't it uh probably yeah I've never worked on circuit boards this integrated whoa tiny thing is just not very precise yeah you could almost do like painters tape style like put down a teeny strip of electrical tape and then take it back up it's a little thicker than I would like well maybe woah look at that that's beautiful okay do we only have one left yeah I kind of think that one's still gonna work I think you want to try that before doing this run cuz it doesn't right Nick oh try actually doing it right right well okay so the issue that it was having uh motion worked fine the clicking of the left mouse button however was milady worked with him probably plan yes completely fine okay is that bit Oh the batteries were backwards wall oops oh yeah it's clicking every time I think we got it right yeah that seems to work okay we fixed it voila hopefully I was really unsure about that yeah like super cuz it just seems so yeah well it's a like a like conductive runs were really bad oh they were but they're electrically conductive remember the makey makey you could just plug crap in it doesn't even matter so it totally works and that's awesome there were some troubles but for two guys who've never done anything like that before I think we did a pretty solid job considering it works I wish there was more simple roller ball style pens for PCBs but as the obvious issues that there are with a ball rolling on a relatively low friction surface like a PCB I'm not surprised either way I'm very happy with the results and I think it's great that we can fix some things around the office instead of just replacing them not only is it more affordable but it's a more sustainable choice as well speaking of fine-tuning ting is an awesome mobile carrier in the US and ting is focused on customer service and customer satisfaction first when you call their support line you don't get sent through a gauntlet of robots you get to speak to a real human being right from the get-go ting users will only get 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