Use pure alcohol to clean the rosin flux off of the board. q-tips
help. don't use acid flux.
ALSO, check out the desolding stations on Amazon - if you have a couple
hundred $ to spare.
On 10/06/2013 11:16 PM, Hardware Mack wrote:
it's messy, corrosive and with these small surfaces
um no,
LOL...somehow that doesn't surprise me. Heaven forbid a few kids work with
a small amount of lead in a reasonable manner.
I'm definitely not using lead-free...pretty sure I crossed paths with that
trying to repair a newer computer motherboard...what a pain. I got some
Radio Shack silver bearing
OK...I've been working on replacing the capacitors on an LCII. I made the
stupid decision to start with an LC (only have one) rather than an LCII (of
which I have 4). Anyway...after half-damaging a few pads attempting to
de-solder, I've left that the LC to sit while I perfect the methods on an
At 21:51 -0400 10/6/13, Wesley Furr wrote:
OK...I've been working on replacing the capacitors on an LCII. I made the
stupid decision to start with an LC (only have one) rather than an LCII (of
which I have 4). Anyway...after half-damaging a few pads attempting to
de-solder, I've left that the
On Oct 6, 2013, at 6:51 PM, Wesley Furr wes...@megley.com wrote:
Is there some other trick I'm missing?
I don't know what type of tip you're using but I like to use a small, chisel
tip for mine when I do recaps on surface mounts (As I recall, it's an LTA tip
for my WSP80 pencil).
- Dylan
On Oct 6, 2013, at 8:02 PM, Hardware Mack hardwarem...@gmail.com wrote:
i have a fan, but the whole corner gets all smoky from the flux.
the best bet is to use flux / solder wick / iron and get those pads nice and
new looking.
I prefer not to use any flux at all. It's messy, corrosive and
it's messy, corrosive and with these small surfaces
um no, its not
I don't think it's needed
its more important when you are trying to clean up the pads, especially when
they are all corroded up / nasty.
To each is own.. i have a production environment here, I recap mac boards just
about
