Terry,
Excellent point. Use every precaution
when soldering, unsoldering and
grinding.
Thanks
Jim
WA9ZBV
Jim and the group:
I'm the someone.. I'm also a guitar
builder, and want to mention
something about dust. I'm was as
guilty as anyone about grinding stuff
w/o
even a paper mask until someone I knew
was grinding abalone shell for a
guitar inlay and almost had to have a
lung transplant. They only did it
once, too. Some dust is terribly
dangerous - I don't know how solder
fits
in there, but it wouldn't hurt to use,
at least, a paper mask. After
hearing about this guy, I now use a
respirator for most anything that
floats
in the air. Go ahead and put me in
the fanatic category, but I couldn't
let
this go by without a small caution.
73
Terry K7WLD
Wenatchee, WA
-----Original Message-----
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On Behalf Of Jim Bo
Sent: Monday, 28 March, 2011 16:20
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Subject: [Drakelist] Unsoldering Caps
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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