Omega Race Disciple repair log

Malice95

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Now that OmegaMan has brought my Omega Race PCB back from the dead...
He has inspired me to give it a go and repair another Omega Race PCB I
bought. This one isnt as Acid damaged as the one he fixed, but should be a
challenge given this is my first board repair.

First up is cleaning the board and unsoldering all the acid affected
components. This picture is fresh out of the sink where I scrubbed it
with a tooth brush. I still need to do some more desoldering to clean out the
holes. That acid cooked solder is a bitch to remove. I need to get some
liquid flux to help out. I went beyond the obvious affected area a bit but
those chips were really clean so hopefully they are good.

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Tonight I finished sucking out all the acid cooked solder. I had to
add some good solder on a bunch of pads to get the old to suck out,
and on a few I had to use a heated piece of wire to reopen the hole.
Now its just a waiting goame for my parts order from China.. tons of sockets,
and old TTL parts that are tough to get over here.

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Cool.. I'm gonna start one of these threads possibly. Good luck!
 
Be sure to gently scrape the mask off where it has bubbled up and treat that before anything else. There is still acid under there that needs to be gone!
 
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