On Mar 24, 2010, at 12:31 PM, Jim Scott wrote:
The most difficult part -- aside from my steep soldering learning curve ascent -- was removing the original capacitors. Apple used lead-free solder in those iMacs, and I literally burned up several solder guns of increasingly higher heat capacity before I got one that could melt the original solder enough to free the bad caps.
You need to get a decent temp regulated soldering iron, Harbor frieght used to have one for about $40, a quick googling finds them at $30- $120-ish.
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