[Elecraft] Unsoldering

[Kevin Stover]

I thought the same thing when I built my K2/100.
As big as the solder sucker looks it does work. I had much more luck 
with it compared to the solder braid.
Keep the soldering iron on the pad in question to keep the solder liquid 
than stick the solder sucker on the other side of the pad from the iron 
and hit the button.


On 2/20/2016 9:11 AM, Mark Petrovic wrote:
> I'm assembling an Elecraft K1, and get the distinct feeling that
> unsoldering really is the last thing you want to be involved in.  I
> have solder wick that has embedded flux, and I have a solder sucker
> that seems huge compared to the size of the features I'm dealing with.
> The wick works ok at getting some of the solder out, but not all of
> it.  And a little bit of residual solder is still a major physical
> blocker to correcting a misplaced component or bad joint.
>
> I feel like I'm a pretty good solder-er, but I have not had good luck
> with unsoldering.  Is it just me or does everyone have this problem?
>
> Thanks.
> Mark
> AE6RT
>


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