[Lab] Desoldering?

[Nicholas Renaud]

Active123 has a big sale going on now. I think they have a decent
solder pump for cheap.

Nick


On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Tom Burns <tom.i.burns at gmail.com> wrote:
> +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
>> > ---
>> >
>> > "Do you pine for the nice days of Minix-1.1, when men were men and
>> > 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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