A little hint with the spring loaded solder-sucker. Use an X-Acto knife and
cut a little notch in the end of the tip so your soldering iron tip can stay
on the joint while the sucker straddles the tip. That way you can heat the
joint, stick the solder sucker over the tip of the iron, and
If you can get a desoldering tool with heated pencil and desolder vacuum
built-in
go for it. I got a Hako 808 and removed many remove components from
boards without damaging components or boards on any PCB's. Double-sided,
singles and multi-layer.
73,
KI4HRN
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I mounted an entire row in my K1 ATU backwards after checking it at least
once.
It was easier and safer to just crush them with sidecutters, remove the pins
with desoldering braid and replace the relays with knew ones. I found them
locally, but you can get them from Elecraft, Mouser or Digikey as
Steve,
If you have a Hakko 808 or similar quality desoldering tool, you might try
removing them, but if not, I strongly suggest that you order new relays and
cut the cases on the existing ones so you can remove the pins one at a time
and clean up with solder wick. The board with the other mounted
On Wednesday 04 January 2006 20:05, Allan Bacon wrote:
If you can get a desoldering tool with heated pencil and desolder vacuum
built-in
go for it. I got a Hako 808 and removed many remove components from
boards without damaging components or boards on any PCB's. Double-sided,
singles and
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