Do near misses count?
Let me recount a tale of my ineptitude circa 2 days ago.
I was recently replacing some caps and resistors on my amiga 1200 since apparently commodore got the values wrong on rev 1A motherboards , the result would be distorted and incorrect sounding music being played.
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So here's the thing , I hadn't removed smd ceramic caps in a while , and forgot the technique of flooding both sides of the cap with solder and pushing it off, what I did instead in my infinite wisdom was to wick off one side of the cap , then hold it with tweezers and as I heated up the remaining soldered side and pulled it with the tweezers,
but my hand slipped and I made a gash across some traces with the tweezers pointy end, said traces go from the keyboard connector to the keyboard controller chip , I wish I could say I'd been drinking prior to this taking place but no I just had a brain fart.
After taking a close up picture I saw that some copper was exposed , thusly I panicked and decided to multi out all the traces that the scratch went across.
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Luckily I found a picture of an unpopulated pcb online so that made it easier to find where the traces went.
Thankfully nothing was broken but I decided to put a drop of nail polish to seal off the exposed tracks.
Did the keyboard test and all seems fine. And yes I then remembered the proper method and finished the replacement job.
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I nearly thought I ruined the A1200 though,which was bloody scary, wouldn't have enjoyed having to fix that mistake , thats for sure!
TLDR : dropped some tweezers and nearly murdered an amiga.