Jim and the group:
I'm the someone.. I'm also a guitar builder, and want to mention
something about dust. I'm was as guilty as anyone about grinding stuff w/o
even a paper mask until someone I knew was grinding abalone shell for a
guitar inlay and almost had to have a lung transplant. They only did it
once, too. Some dust is terribly dangerous - I don't know how solder fits
in there, but it wouldn't hurt to use, at least, a paper mask. After
hearing about this guy, I now use a respirator for most anything that floats
in the air. Go ahead and put me in the fanatic category, but I couldn't let
this go by without a small caution.
73
Terry K7WLD
Wenatchee, WA
-----Original Message-----
From: drakelist-boun...@zerobeat.net [mailto:drakelist-boun...@zerobeat.net]
On Behalf Of Jim Bo
Sent: Monday, 28 March, 2011 16:20
To: drakelist@zerobeat.net
Subject: [Drakelist] Unsoldering Caps
You can fight the solder with heat OR
take the easy way and grind the solder
joint with a Dremmel and cut off disk or
a diamond tipped grinding bit that
Dremmel also supplies. I know Iknow,
some one will bring up dust and the
Mayan Calendar and possible
meteor...........never really an issue
AND the old cap pulls out with the
gentlest of pulls AND there is no old
solder, so the new one fits in easily
AND you have a clean piece of metal to
solder the new one. Or, you can risk
melting wires............I have replaced
caps in 4 rigs and one was with the
soldering iron, solder suckers, solder
wick, wire cutters and the other three
were with the Dremmel. BTW, no melted
wires with any of the 4 rigs.
Jim
WA9ZBV
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