Swarf - The Sparkly Killer

[Mr. Lim]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

I'm not sure where "between C8 and C9" really is; the one tiny dot I can make out there is dwarfed by junk elsewhere on the board. Without any depth to the image, it's not easy for me to tell what's debris and what's just blemishes in the conformal coating. It probably looks a lot worse in person.

Alan, I think the biggest culprit are the two metal "hairs" that start in the gap between C8 and C9 (but closer, or even touching C9), run down and across the R38a label, and almost underlining the C8 label.

To me, of all the debris on the board, those particular pieces scream loudest in their readiness to release magical smoke.