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Okay, the multi-meter with continuity test I ordered arrived and I've had a chance to check the caps. All are good except C127 negative side. I de-soldered it and checked the pad. No continuity. So a bodge wire is needed. C127 neg side (closest to ram slot) goes to ground, correct? Could I...

Thanks for the help zdw, much appreciated. My multi-meter doesn't do continuity, time for an upgrade!

UPDATE: My friend helped me with soldering the bodge wire to the chip for C149. He couldn't solder to the dot (what is its proper name?) to the right of the missing solder pad (more on that) so he soldered to the positive of C150. Is that correct? Visually it looks correct to me, but...

Magnet wire, man that would help!

Thanks Josh, much appreciated. Currently I only have q-tips and 99% pure isopropyl alcohol for cleaning. What do you (or anyone) recommend for cleaning? One of those fibre-glass pencils perhaps?

So C101 looks to be fine after all. Both pads on C149 are gone and the negative pad on C128 too.

Thanks. I'll try to get some up in the next day or so.

Hi, I have a Performa 475 logic board that I am re-capping. First time working with surface mount components and you guessed it, I ripped off a few pads. I swear I wasn't using the "twist" method 😄 but 4 pads ripped off anyway. So I need to run some bodge wires I suppose but I don't know where...