On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Csanyi Pal <[email protected]> wrote: > John Luciani <[email protected]> > writes: > >> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Csanyi Pal >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >>> One more question. >>> >>> I tried to desolder a SMD component, a capacitor with solder remover >>> wick (copper braid), and it's very hard to do it. >> >> How big a cap? > > 1206s
You should be able to sheer those off. Sometimes I wick all the solder off of both sides, lay the iron tip across both ends of the cap and use an X-acto knife to pry the part after it heats. (* jcl *) -- You can't create open hardware with closed EDA tools. http://www.luciani.org _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
