Last week I broke a solder pad off of a printed circuit board. As far as pads go, this one was fairly large, about 3mm x 3mm. It was used to hold a small CR 1220 batter holder to the board.
Because of the size of the pad, I opted to use JB Weld to fix it. JB weld is a fairly strong type of epoxy that requires mixing two equal parts of different pastes to activate.
Once the JB Weld set, I needed to also fix the next problem with board. When the pad broke, the trace between the battery pin and the pad was severed. Rather than attempting to resolder the trace to the pad (now covered in JB Weld), I ran a piece of jumper wire from the pin to the opposite pad.
Now this board should be returned to full functionality.
