Reply to HELP - I've butched my VCI trying to change LEDs!!!

Hi everyone.

What can I say. I feel flattened!

After performing the arcade mod with ease (and thoroughly enjoying it) some time ago, I thought changing the LEDs would be a breeze and yield great results - I'm colour bliind and have great difficulty in differentiating between the stock LED colours on the VCI.

After finding this tutorial:

http://www.djranking s.com/2009/08/3...-a-button-led/

I thought I would easily be able to do this and have a great time in the process. Instead I have butchered my VCI-100. It seems that the holes that were milled for the LEDs were very tight, so needed some force along with the heat from the soldering iron to remove. In applying this, I seem to have broken some of the printed metal tracks and short circuited the PCB in other places. Now some lights don't come on and others are flashing like crazy when I press certain (LED modded) buttons. Also, The VCI is fluctuating between power on and off.

I can visibly see the couple of tracks which need repair, but this is beyond my skill set.

Do any electronics wizards on here live near London and want to help me try and remedy this (or is this an insane request)?

PLLLLEEEAAAASSSEEE!