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Post by HotDog-Cart »

Whats the use of a De-Solder iron?

Cant you just take a Solder Iron and Heat the Metal up and then pull the wire out?
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Post by shmagoogin77 »

ya but on the desolder acually sucks up the solder if your soldering like a point on a borad
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Post by Radon199 »

Don't get an iron, Radio Shack has a vacum pump and coper braid for like $5 or less. And yes you can just pull the bugger out, thats what I did with wires, but with leads like the AV jack in my PS with those masive ground plugs needed to have the solder sucked away bit by bit. Seriously it took me like 2 hrs of constant soldering to get the bugger off.
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Post by SpongeBuell »

also, I'm sure we have all dripped solder on a motherboard, or at least some of us have. A desoldering bulb helps a lot
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Post by Turbo Tax 1.0 »

yeah i need to use mine right now to get some solder off an IC i was soldering to
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Post by daguuy »

HotDog-Cart wrote:Whats the use of a De-Solder iron?

Cant you just take a Solder Iron and Heat the Metal up and then pull the wire out?
that only works for wires. you need to get rid of the solder for surface mount stuff
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Post by vb_master »

I prefer desoldering braid.
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Post by G-force »

Desoldering braid can rip off traces though. A desoldering iron is the safest and best way to remove solder. Not braid or a bulb. Trust me, I've tried all of them.
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Post by Trv »

vb_master wrote:I prefer desoldering braid.
It causes cancer, but only in California.
RadioShack.com wrote:California residents: WARNING: This product contains, or when used for soldering and similar applications produces, chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects (or other reproductive harm).
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Post by bicostp »

Trv wrote:
vb_master wrote:I prefer desoldering braid.
It causes cancer, but only in California.
RadioShack.com wrote:California residents: WARNING: This product contains, or when used for soldering and similar applications produces, chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects (or other reproductive harm).
Everything causes cancer in California. :roll:
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amen
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Everything causes cancer in California
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