[Elecraft] Unsoldering

[Dauer, Edward]

Same here, on the K2 (and related accessories.)  The spring-loaded solder 
sucker worked FB for me, used just as Kevin describes.  On a couple of 
occasions I had to do it from both sides of the board to get everything 
clean.  I also found it the case that shouting a familiar four-letter 
expletive immediately upon realizing that the error had been made was 
strongly associated with success in doing the fix.  There is no 
theoretical reason why that should be so, but the correlation is 
empirically perfect.

Ted, KN1CBR


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>Message: 24
>Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 09:21:20 -0600
>From: Kevin Stover <kevin.stover at mediacombb.net>
>To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
>Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Unsoldering
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>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.
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>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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