A little hint with the spring loaded solder-sucker. Use an X-Acto knife and
cut a little notch in the end of the tip so your soldering iron tip can stay
on the joint while the sucker straddles the tip. That way you can heat the
joint, stick the solder sucker over the tip of the iron, and suck
Thanks to all who shared their experience and
suggestions. Some interesting approaches indeed.
I decided to try the spring-loaded solder sucker
method, since one was available. It worked well enough
(in conjunction with a bit of lead prodding) on all
the ungrounded pins, but I couldn't get the gr
OK, HOW I DID IT !!!
First, I made a tool, a heat shield. I made this out of a piece of tin from an
Altoids box. I used a set of relay holes on the circuit board to mark on this
piece of tin the precise location of all ten holes with a needle. Then I put
the piece of tin on a piece of wood,
On Wednesday 04 January 2006 20:05, Allan Bacon wrote:
> If you can get a desoldering tool with heated pencil and desolder vacuum
> built-in
> go for it. I got a Hako 808 and removed many remove components from
> boards without damaging components or boards on any PCB's. Double-sided,
> singles
Steve,
If you have a Hakko 808 or similar quality desoldering tool, you might try
removing them, but if not, I strongly suggest that you order new relays and
cut the cases on the existing ones so you can remove the pins one at a time
and clean up with solder wick. The board with the other mounted
ace, what would make me think I could desolder them correctly after the
fact.
Eric
KE6US
www.ke6us.com
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Subject: [Elecraft] Relay Removal ?
OK, while everyone seems to be on the subject of
stupidity...I just found I installed two of Elecraft's
ubiquitous latching relays in
OK, while everyone seems to be on the subject of
stupidity...I just found I installed two of Elecraft's
ubiquitous latching relays incorrectly (after several
checks to make sure it was done right !).
Has anyone ever successfully unsoldered one without
serious damage to either the relay or the boar
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