John Luciani <jluci...@gmail.com> writes: > On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Csanyi Pal > <csanyi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> One more question. >> >> I tried to desolder a SMD component, a capacitor with solder remover >> wick (copper braid), and it's very hard to do it. > > How big a cap?
1206s > I desolder caps 603s, 805s and 1206s by wicking all of the solder of one > side and then heating the other side while applying a small sideways pressure > with the tip of the iron. The ceramic has small enough mass so that the solder > on both sides should be molten enough to enable you to sheer the cap off the > board without damaging the pads. > > (* jcl *) -- Regards, Paul Csanyi http://www.freewebs.com/csanyi-pal/index.htm _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user