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Won't there be shorts between traces and solder?

The bottom of Patrick's mem card is all nicely solder-masked, meaning it has a coat of that translucent green insulation goo all over it. So there's nothing on the underside to short out on anything, unless one scratches it.

And there's nothing unmasked on the bottom of the empeg main board either, except for the test pads.

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