[Drakelist] Unsoldering Caps

[Jim Bo]

You can fight the solder with heat OR 
take the easy way and grind the solder 
joint with a Dremmel and cut off disk or 
a diamond tipped grinding bit that 
Dremmel also supplies.  I know Iknow, 
some one will bring up dust and the 
Mayan Calendar and possible 
meteor...........never really an issue 
AND the old cap pulls out with the 
gentlest of pulls AND there is no old 
solder, so the new one fits in easily 
AND you have a clean piece of metal to 
solder the new one.  Or, you can risk 
melting wires............I have replaced 
caps in 4 rigs and one was with the 
soldering iron, solder suckers, solder 
wick, wire cutters and the other three 
were with the Dremmel.  BTW, no melted 
wires with any of the 4 rigs.

Jim
WA9ZBV 


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