[Elecraft] Relay Removal ?

[Ian Stirling]

On Wednesday 04 January 2006 20:05, Allan Bacon wrote:
> If you can get a desoldering tool with heated pencil and desolder vacuum built-in 
> go for it. I got a Hako 808 and removed many remove components from 
> boards without damaging components or boards on any PCB's. Double-sided, 
> singles and multi-layer. 

  I have used the spring loaded sucking plunger
type that's used with a soldering iron to
remove ICs and components.  I have one from
RS Components (when I lived in England) and one
from Radio Shack.
  The method is to remove the solder and then
'crack' the leads from the board, to free them
from the residual solder, with a small
screwdriver or such tool.  Even 40 pin ICs
succumb undamaged to this.

Ian, G4ICV, AB2GR, K2 #4962
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