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

[Chris Albertson <albertson.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

> I tried to desolder a SMD component, a capacitor with solder remover
> wick (copper braid), and it's very hard to do it.

The class setup is rework tweezers.   It's basically a double tipped
solder iron and you can just pick up the part off the PCB with
hot tipped tweezers.

But us poor-folk just heat both ends
of the part at once with a larger tip solder iron then push the part
sideways off the pads with the iron.

Also try lifting with normal tweezer while cycling the iron from
pin to pin.


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