stubblef@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> On Aug 28, 7:55 pm, "Mr. INTJ" <mr.i...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > I started doing hobby electronics again fairly recently, and
recycling/
> > scavenging is a big draw for me. As it happens, my company throws away
> > lots of useful stuff, and over the past year I've brought home lots of
> > circuit boards with various useful parts on them.
> >
> > I've got a solder sucker and solder wick/braid, but components with
> > more than two or three leads continue to be a problem for me. I have a
> > little soldering station with a soldering iron, but I've been thinking
> > that I probably need some hot tweezers or a heat gun of some kind.
> > Most of the stuff that I'm recovering from these boards are through-
> > hole components ... I haven't graduated to SMT-at-home just yet.
> >
> > I don't mind springing for the right tools, but I don't want to buy
> > something only to find that it still isn't very effective.
> >
> > I'd like to hear from the folks that do a significant amount of this
> > kind of thing (desoldering), and which tools/methods they favor.
>
>
> Use the solder wick on multipin items just wick the bottom of the
> board and then wiggle the pins to be sure that they are loose.
If the device is dead )or low cost) you simply cut every pin and them
remove
the debris pin by pin. The PCB is 10000 x more valuable than a dead bug.
Graham
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