[Lab] Desoldering?

[Tom Burns]

+1 to that, wick is great for cleaning up a mess and just leaving joints
soldered.

The pump is great for when you solder your last switch on your x0xb0x on the
wrong side of the board (I did this ;) )

Tom

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Andrew Plumb <andrew at plumb.org> wrote:

> You'll need both if you have to do any SMD repair work.  Solder wick is
> easier to absorb solder bridges from between tiny pins.
>
> Andrew.
>
> On 2010-08-17, at 1:08 PM, Jean-Marc LeBlanc wrote:
>
> > That pump should be all you need.  It is about 10$ at radio shack.  I
> > got one last month.
> >
> > Jean-Marc Le Blanc
> > ---
> >
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> > wrote their own device drivers?" Linus Torvalds
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Tom Burns <tom.i.burns at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> Hi Jonathan,
> >>
> >> Not sure how familiar you are with desoldering but I strongly suggest
> >> picking up one of these:
> >>
> >> http://www.cablelot.com/images/900-001N.JPG
> >>
> >> Basically you prime the pump, heat up the solder you want to remove,
> bring
> >> the pump tip very close to the solder, hit the trigger and the suction
> pulls
> >> the solder out.  It's much much easier than using wick.  Not sure if you
> can
> >> get them at radio shack but I know the Active Electronics near Merivale
> has
> >> them.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Tom
> >>
> >> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 12:42 AM, Jonathan Rudenberg <
> jonathan at titanous.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Does anyone know if we have any desoldering tools in the lab (such as
> >>> solder wick)?
> >>>
> >>> Jonathan
> >>>
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