[Elecraft] Unsoldering

[Reuben Popp]

Hah!  Needless to say that beer consumed is beer not wasted, yes?  Unless,
that is, it's something like Hamms (Schlitz lovers I'm looking your way
too), at which point it can hardly be considered beer, right?

Those other tips are a hoot.  I know for one in working on really old stuff
there's been times where a blob of solder would sit there and taunt me (or
my iron) more or less.  Talk about infuriating.  It's all fun and games
until the American Beauty has to come out.  I would hate to "test" one of
those suckers on my skin.  Yeee-ouch!

On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 11:28 AM, Ron D'Eau Claire <ron at cobi.biz> wrote:

> Ha, ha!!! But the beer was NOT wasted. It was the one sure-fire benefit of
> the exercise.
>
> Removing parts with a solder sucker, especially those with multiple "leads"
> (some as many as ten) without destroying either the board or part I find
> it's common for a very thin layer of solder to remain after "sucking" the
> hole clean. The remaining film of solder is easily broken by wiggling the
> part.
>
> 73, Ron AC7AC
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Elecraft [mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of
> Wayne
> Burdick
> Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2016 9:01 AM
> To: Reuben Popp; Mark Petrovic
> Cc: elecraft at qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Unsoldering
>
> For further tips, some of which are not described in the literature, see:
>
>     http://www.qsotoday.com/n6kr-desolder-primer.html
>
> Wayne
> N6KR
>
>
> >> ...[I] get the distinct feeling that
> >> unsoldering really is the last thing you want to be involved in....
>
>
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