Hi Brian:

Just make sure you fully clean the varnish off the traces where you are attempting the repair so that they are nice and shiny. You may need to use a bit of flux to help the solder flow. This will give you a nice mechanical bond.

Derek

Hi Derek,

I got a tip from somewhere else and used a brass brush on my Dremel to remove the varnish and leave a nicely polished surface.  Of course have to be careful not to go through the trace.  All that said, repair is underway.  I have mechanically secured the crack area with epoxy and a small bent piece of coat hanger on the front side and epoxied over that.  Started the trace repair and am using small pieces of capacitor leads to bridge the gaps and then flux and solder over that.  So far. so good.  Once complete, I will brush some epoxy over the repaired area.  May be overkill, but that's alright.  Not the prettiest repair in the world, but I think it will work fine.  Hope to get all repair work done and button it up this weekend for a test.

Thanks again to all for the advice.

Brian

i know its two years ago but did it work? :) i have a non spinning CD in  9300  so intrigued !