"Ross Matheson" wrote in message
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Hi,

I've been parting out some rather large junked but new-ish photocopier
SMPS boards, as large as ~ 11"x12" in ali chassis, and eyeing up the
quality fibreglass PCB itself. Wide traces and groundplane areas, and the
thought has occurred to me to strip off the actual traces and re-use
sections of the boards with eyelet tags or turrets for my own projects.

Any ideas as to how to go about effectively lifting the copper traces to
get it back to a blank fibreglass board?

Thanks, RdM

I used to do it with a knife to break and pull up a trace. Then the entire
trace could be peeled away from the board.