All, As Alan said, A desoldering iron works great on thru hole parts. I use one from Amazon "Velleman VTDESOL3U Vacuum Desoldering Pump with Heater" about $18.
Joel - N1JEO On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 9:20 AM G4GNX <g4...@g4gnx.com> wrote: > For surface mount I would never use a soldering iron. Learn to use a hot > air gun and just pick the components of with tweezers. > > For thru hole components I use a ‘proper’ desoldering gun which has a hole > through the middle of the bit and will remove all solder surrounding a pin. > With the right professional technique you gently move the pin around the > hole, using the desoldering tool, which ensures that no part of the pin > sticks to the plate-thru. > > Sorry I don’t have a link, but take a look at sites such as Banggood. They > have some excellent desoldering ‘guns’ at around $40. > > 73, > Alan - G4GNX > > > > > On 14 Mar 2022, at 05:06, Tony <73gu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > All: > > > > Can anyone recommend a budget de-soldering iron that can be used in > tight places? I need to remove a small component that has a few surface > mount devices close by so the iron would need to have a small tip. > > > > Also need advice on the best soldering iron to use for this type of work > as well as the best low-temp Rosin core solder to use. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Tony -K2MO > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > > Elecraft mailing list > > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > Message delivered to g4...@g4gnx.com > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to jocu1...@gmail.com ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
