[Elecraft] Relay Removal ?

[EricJ]

I mounted an entire row in my K1 ATU backwards after checking it at least
once.

It was easier and safer to just crush them with sidecutters, remove the pins
with desoldering braid and replace the relays with knew ones. I found them
locally, but you can get them from Elecraft, Mouser or Digikey as well. They
aren't very special and they are inexpensive.

Unless you have one of those fancy desolderers they talk about here (I
don't), it is risky and very tedious trying to do it with desoldering braid.
I figured if I couldn't handle soldering them in correctly in the first
place, what would make me think I could desolder them correctly after the
fact. 

Eric
KE6US
www.ke6us.com 

-----Original Message-----
From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Steve Kavanagh
Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 11:17 AM
To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Elecraft] Relay Removal ?

OK, while everyone seems to be on the subject of stupidity...I just found I
installed two of Elecraft's ubiquitous latching relays incorrectly (after
several checks to make sure it was done right !).

Has anyone ever successfully unsoldered one without serious damage to either
the relay or the board ? If so what technique did you use ?

73,
Steve VE3SMA


	

	
		
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