Re: gEDA-user: Surface mounted circuits in hobby projects

[John Luciani <jluciani@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Csanyi Pal <csanyipal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> John Luciani <jluciani@xxxxxxxxx>
> writes:
>
>> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Csanyi Pal
>> <csanyipal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> One more question.
>>>
>>> I tried to desolder a SMD component, a capacitor with solder remover
>>> wick (copper braid), and it's very hard to do it.
>>
>> How big a cap?
>
> 1206s

You should be able to sheer those off. Sometimes
I wick all the solder off of both sides, lay the iron tip across
both ends of the cap and use an X-acto knife to pry the part
after it heats.

(* jcl *)


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