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 <[email protected]> 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:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Wayne > Burdick > Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2016 9:01 AM > To: Reuben Popp; Mark Petrovic > Cc: [email protected] > 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.... > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message > delivered to [email protected] > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
