Adafruit SD card Shield cut track to Chip Select pin

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Hi All,

I have bought a Linkspite 16x2 Character LCD display and Adafruit SD card shield with real time clock. I have stacked the 2 units on top of each other so all the pins are shared.

Both shields are functioning when used separately but when stacking them together I'm getting some sort of conflict that is making the LCD display just black squares and stopping the SD card from writing.

I know that LCD uses pin 10 on the arduino for backlight and the sd card uses pin 10 for chip select.

at the bottom of this page: Shield Overview | Adafruit Data Logger Shield | Adafruit Learning System it says " If you need to cut the trace to pin 10 because it is conflicting, this pad can be soldered to any digital pin and the software re-uploaded"

can anyone who has done this or something similar tell me if they've done this before as I'm nervous about it

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Sharp craft knife or scalpel, cut out a section of the trace, scrape insulation off it
to enable a link wire to be soldered to it and thus to another pin (which needs
to be coded as CS for the SDcard).

Practice on a scrap circuit board if you've never done this before, where mistakes
aren't so expensive !

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Chip select has an actual pad of it's own so do you think I could just cut the track going to pin 10 and wire from the cs pad to my new pin?