On 09/05/2012 10:07, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Norman Dunbar wrote:
My image when I hear the word "blowtorch" is of my dad filling his
with paraffin and pumping it for what seemed ages to get some
pressure up and then a huge blue flame!
That was my reaction when I heard Lee make the remark at the Quanta
Workshop in Manchester. Actually, the notion of "whacking" the board
against something to make the chips/sockets fall out after heating was
what tickled me most!
I have managed to fry a few components using just a soldering iron
over the years, never mind a blowtorch :-)
Dilwyn Jones
At work we had multiple de-soldering tools which fitted on a soldering
iron and had holes linked to a suction machine; the tool was applied and
it left it solder-free to then just pull out (usually). In the lab (and
at home) it was common to work pin by pin melting the solder and then
knocking sharply when most of the solder would come out; it was
practically as good as a suction de-solderer and one didn't have to
re-load it.
Bryan H
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