Some wicks are coated with resin flux, so they are messy. You would have to get bare copper wick and use liquid flux. Still, I wouldn't suggest using wick to anyone without experience. Drop of liquid flux will do the trick. 8 or 6 mil traces can be easily damaged when desoldering with iron, especially when PCB is poor quality (plenty of them lately.)
On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 3:33 PM Brian via TriEmbed <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1/22/19 3:13 PM, Robert Gasiorowski via TriEmbed wrote: > > I would have to disagree with few things in that article. > > [...] > > I would never use wick to remove solder from SMD components, leaves > > resin and you can easily overheat traces. Flux works wonders for > > soldering and removal of excess of solder. > > Resin? I'm not sure what resin you're referring to. Wick is just a > braid of copper; nothing else (well, some are pre-impregnated with flux, > but in my experience that is never enough flux). As far as overheating, > I've never had a problem with that as long as there's plenty of flux and > a well-tinned tip to ensure proper heat transfer. > > At any rate, flux and wick together is almost magic in its ability to > act like a solder vacuum. Hooray for capillary action! > > Afterwards, a quick wipe with an isopropyl-moistened q-tip is all you > need to clean up the excess flux. > > -Brian > > _______________________________________________ > Triangle, NC Embedded Computing mailing list > > To post message: [email protected] > List info: http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org > TriEmbed web site: http://TriEmbed.org > To unsubscribe, click link and send a blank message: mailto: > [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe > >
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