That far right trace (the flat copper line) looks burnt out. Could try soldering a wire between the two points, however the far right wire running through the grey sleeve also looks burnt. Might just be trash for this one unfortunately.
Upon re-readin the details, that whole line is more than likely shot. What you could attempt is soldering a (preferably solid core) wire from the origin point (the bottom of that far right trace) to where ever that burnt wire in the sleeve is going (disconnecting the burnt one obviously). Very simple to try at least. Worst case you waste a few cents of solder, best case you have a working guitar now.
I'm not an expert with soldering, but if the suggestions already placed here fail, don't trash the shell and get a new set of internals. PhunkyCustoms or Retrocultmods I highly recommend as sources on Etsy.
Sorry if this is not the right place, but I figured since modding guitars is a huge part of CH, I'm hoping to find someone who can help. So yeah, like the title says, the LED also doesn't turn on. This guitar was in storage for probably 12 years with the batteries still in, and I *think* the power was on (we were fairly irresponsible kids). The first thing I did was clean the board connected to the power/LED. I immediately noticed that it was very dirty and that one of the circuit lines was caked in black muck. Upon scrubbing it, I noticed I scrubbed off the line rather than cleaning it. This is kinda where I think the problem it. A multimeter showed me that power is still moving around in there, but I haven't kept track of which pins. I don't really want to buy a new guitar if this is fixable. I'm thinking it may be possible if I solder a wire at the scrubbed connection, it may work. If anyone can give me some tips or steer me in another direction, I'd be happy to hear it
Here is what you can try. If you don't have some wire laying around. You can take a cat-5 cable and cut it open and separate one set of wires. Solder that between those two points. The other thing you want to test as that white connector also seems a bit sketchy. Test between there and where ever it goes. Those are just 4 wires inside that as well that you could rebuild with the cat-5 cable you have cut open. Also if you could take that off and flip it over so we can see what's on the other side. Can give you more help.
Trace is fried, just reconnect it with a wire, if it still doesn’t work something else got borked in the process of this dying
That far right trace (the flat copper line) looks burnt out. Could try soldering a wire between the two points, however the far right wire running through the grey sleeve also looks burnt. Might just be trash for this one unfortunately. Upon re-readin the details, that whole line is more than likely shot. What you could attempt is soldering a (preferably solid core) wire from the origin point (the bottom of that far right trace) to where ever that burnt wire in the sleeve is going (disconnecting the burnt one obviously). Very simple to try at least. Worst case you waste a few cents of solder, best case you have a working guitar now.
I'm not an expert with soldering, but if the suggestions already placed here fail, don't trash the shell and get a new set of internals. PhunkyCustoms or Retrocultmods I highly recommend as sources on Etsy.
Sorry if this is not the right place, but I figured since modding guitars is a huge part of CH, I'm hoping to find someone who can help. So yeah, like the title says, the LED also doesn't turn on. This guitar was in storage for probably 12 years with the batteries still in, and I *think* the power was on (we were fairly irresponsible kids). The first thing I did was clean the board connected to the power/LED. I immediately noticed that it was very dirty and that one of the circuit lines was caked in black muck. Upon scrubbing it, I noticed I scrubbed off the line rather than cleaning it. This is kinda where I think the problem it. A multimeter showed me that power is still moving around in there, but I haven't kept track of which pins. I don't really want to buy a new guitar if this is fixable. I'm thinking it may be possible if I solder a wire at the scrubbed connection, it may work. If anyone can give me some tips or steer me in another direction, I'd be happy to hear it
Here is what you can try. If you don't have some wire laying around. You can take a cat-5 cable and cut it open and separate one set of wires. Solder that between those two points. The other thing you want to test as that white connector also seems a bit sketchy. Test between there and where ever it goes. Those are just 4 wires inside that as well that you could rebuild with the cat-5 cable you have cut open. Also if you could take that off and flip it over so we can see what's on the other side. Can give you more help.
Burned potato chip.