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Originally Posted by emeritus
I have fixed damage to the very thin tracks on my mother's digibox remote using some conductive silver paint (the tracks are too thin to solder too, and no suitable pads are available to solder wire links to) but the repair hasn't lasted more than a few months. I shall have to try varnishing over the paint to see if it improves things as it has just gone again.
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I suspect that part of your problem is that trying to connect anything to the remaining battery-exudate-eroded copper tracks is like trying to make a good electrical connection to gravel.
When faced with this issue I've always gone back to the wire connections of the components thatb attach to the eroded traces. Which is not always an option if the piece of equipment uses surface-mount technolohy throughout.