Fixing a trace

[tkelly27]

I'm socketing a smec for my friend and I accidentally sawed through two traces. The cut is thinner than the trace itself, and it was just barely enough to go trhough the copper. I remember way back in the day I over clocked my AMD Athlon just by drawing a line between the L1 bridge with a pencil
http://www.techspot.com/articles/athlonxp_overclocking/
Think it will work for this? Is there a more conductive substance I could draw between the two? I figured I'd score the traces in question up a little to expose the copper and then draw from copper to copper.
I'd really ratther not follow them around and dig up the potting to get a new wire stuck on there

[anonymous_user]

Scrape the copper bare and bridge a thin line of solder across the cut.

[lametec]

Use some kind of conductive pen meant for this very purpose. Lead pencil ain't gonna do it.

Or just fill the gap with some solder. Not an easy trick to pull off on thin traces, but doable. Just be careful not to lift the trace off the PCB!

[RoadWarrior222]

Rear window defogger repair paint or epoxy, or conductive silver paint from radio shack.

Best plan is to solder it, lowest resistance.

Pencils work on Athlon XPs because it's meant to be tied up or down through a 1K resistance. It's also a signal more than a wire that needs to carry any current.