Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 22:44:39 -0800 From: "Tom Stangl, VFAQman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] XP on L100 at 266
You don't heat and pull, you heat and apply desoldering braid to pull all the solder away from the joint. Do that on both sides, and you should be able to touch it with the iron and lift it easily with a pin/needle.
Matthew Hanson wrote:
Bah ... that component is a zero-ohm resistor (ie. a wire link). They didn't use an actual wire link because it's easier to populate the board when all the components are the same size. Just flick it out with a hot soldering iron then use a little bit of wire to bridge the 3 pads as marked (it's probably easier to go between the right 2 pads rather than go around them, just put a little 'hump' in the wire so it doesn't short anything out).
My problem is dealing with things so small. How do you grab onto the 'resistor' to pull it out? I'm afraid I'm going to be so clumsy with the iron trying to heat and pull at the same time, that I'll risk damaging something either from heat or badly applied force.
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