[Elecraft] Re: Help, I think I've killed my K1

[David A. Belsley]

John:
  Delighted you got things going again.  Just a couple of comments on your 
comments,

best wishes,

dave belsley, w1euy

--On Monday, May 26, 2003 12:20 AM -0700 John Webster <jww@dslextreme.com> 
wrote:

>
> 3. To remove an IC, cut its pins, and then desolder them carefully.
> To isolate a trace, you can cut a single pin and lift it up, and then
> resolder it back, without leaving hardly even a trace.
>

No need to lift the pin.  Just cut, making sure of no physical connection 
between both sides of the cut. Then resolder the cut when through.


> 4. I need a Hakko 808 desoldering tool!

You'll do just as well for almost anything you're likely to do, and at a 
fraction (and I mean fraction) of the price, with the GC Solder Popper.


best wishes,

dave belsley, w1euy



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David A. Belsley
Professor of Economics