On Tue, 21 Aug 2018 at 02:58, Todd Zuercher <[email protected]> wrote:

> Really Andy? There are a couple of overlapping 1/8" diameter holes burned 
> through the board where the transistor mounts.

If you are asking about the feasibility of repair, then yes, those two
holes do not necessarily preclude repair.

By the time you have removed all the conductive burned mess the holes
will be bigger...
But as long as the components have something to hold them in place
then "dead bug" construction floating in air will work.

Before PCBs everything was built that way: https://goo.gl/images/k2RcX5
And for very specialised applications, sometimes they stil are:
https://hackaday.com/2015/02/10/the-one-million-dollar-scope-teardown/

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lunatics."
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