Help repairing Yamaha RM1X synthesizer/groovebox - PCB trace for capacitor has been pulled off

[jshhh]

Hi guys,

I've been trying to restore this Yamaha RM1X groove-box I bought, and the first thing on my agenda was to replace a bad capacitor that was making it so that the screen was super dim. As I'm a complete novice I went and accidentally pulled off one of the trace pads for the SMD capacitor as I was removing it, pulling up some of the green PCB with it. I've been trying to repair it by gluing down copper tape from where it began to pull off and solder the capacitor on after...atm I've just been attempting to do the same kind of thing on rubbish PCBs I got at a recycling place, but every time I attempt to properly tin the copper tape and solder the cap onto it the copper tape pulls up. I have tried a few different glues - super glue, araldite, epoxy. I usually scratch away the PCB coating first then glue copper tape onto that with a boarder of copper around the tape, put some solder on the copper tape and try to solder a capacitor to it but as soon as it gets hot it pulls away. Any advice?

Below is an image of the RM1X PCB where the damage is

[redbaron1007]

I would scrape back the solder mask on the board where the trace used to go with an xacto/hobby knife. Tin the exposed copper on the pcb and put the cap on sideways sliding it into the solder you just put onto the board. Then solder the other end onto the pad. It doesn't have to be straight or perfect it just has to make a connection and the area next to the cap looks like it's connected to where the pad used to go.

I tried my best to mark up your photo to explain what I mean, but an artist I am not.

[CapLeaker]

Same here. In this case I go sideways. But you can also take a through hole capacitor and go the old way and just have one leg a bit longer. I would put solder mask or conformal coating over the bare parts of the traces. It's no biggie… it happens…

[jshhh]

Thanks for the suggestions Ill let you know how it goes