What’s on *YOUR* workbench?
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Laundryroom David
Keyboard Cowboy 🤠
Just need one of these tips... You can pull pots, toggles, pinheaders, whatever.
benny_profane
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Solder wick is great for cleaning up SMD parts—especially ICs.
Harry Klippton
Not Interested
I want thisJust need one of these tips... You can pull pots, toggles, pinheaders, whatever.
Robert
Reverse Engineer
Gotta make sure it's the pre-fluxed type. Chem-Wik is the good stuff, although a bit pricey in comparison.
Many years ago this is how we soldered fine-pitch SMD ICs at the repair shop where I worked (before we had proper equipment).
Just blob solder across the entire line of pins, bridging them all together, then clean up the excess with wick.
PapaBear
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Here's the tip, doesn't say what it'll fit
Robert
Reverse Engineer
Looks like that one fits the Aoyue WQ station.
Not sure if the type with the heating element in the handle would work as good, but possibly?
Mine is a Pace with the element in the tip so it heats up instantly.
Not sure if the type with the heating element in the handle would work as good, but possibly?
Mine is a Pace with the element in the tip so it heats up instantly.
szukalski
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I would say desoldering rates up there with soldering. You’re quite shit for a long time and then it clicks and you’re proficient.
Pots and switches are the worst to do, but definitely doable, lead free or not. I think my first five pots were dodgy attempts with a bit of failure. Now I can desolder pots at slightly below average quality. Get yourself a throwaway PCB and pot and keep soldering and desoldering.
There’s something soothing about sucking up that solder after a while.
Paradox916
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Desoldering is just part of the hobby, is it fun? Not really… no one likes screwing up… but it you ever want to fix anything you have to learn, and that’s the key…it’s not magic it is like anything else the more you do it the better you get, if you refuse to learn you never will.
Robert
Reverse Engineer
finebyfine
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Holy fucking shit
giovanni
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Magical
PapaBear
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Just Dahmn!
Feral Feline
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I named one of my projects ZzuffumM!
Oh, and anyone know where there's a tip like that for the Hakko 888D?
KR Sound
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I’ve seen some people solder a solid wire across all three and then heat that up, releasing them all. Lots of SMD parts are removed that way too in some vids I watched.
Robert
Reverse Engineer
Yep, before I had the wide tip I would just lay the iron sideways across all three lugs of the pot.
I usually break out the tweezers for SMD work.
Feral Feline
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jimilee
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I get your point. I’ve had a slot of practice, probably too much.
Passinwind
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That's #1 on my current hit list. Time to up my game on the SMT tooling as I port more and more of my older designs to that format.