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sharpfork:

--- Quote from: brad808 on December 21, 2012, 10:04:49 am ---Best advice I can give to new people soldering is practice on old PCBs. You can find them from anything like VCRs, walkmans, whatever. Then if you burn through it doesn't matter.

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This is spectacular advice.  Getting real experience soldering stuff you are going to throw away is a great wat to learn.

CoryBee:

--- Quote from: sharpfork on December 21, 2012, 11:08:55 pm ---
--- Quote from: brad808 on December 21, 2012, 10:04:49 am ---Best advice I can give to new people soldering is practice on old PCBs. You can find them from anything like VCRs, walkmans, whatever. Then if you burn through it doesn't matter.

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This is spectacular advice.  Getting real experience soldering stuff you are going to throw away is a great wat to learn.

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So true, I remember de-soldering LEDs from old electronics with the most shitey of soldering irons. Questioning how the hell did those LCD panels in alarm clocks work  ???

spystyle:
I use a cheap de-soldering iron with good success. It has a bulb for suction - you compress the bulb, heat the undesired solder, then let go of the bulb and that creates suction which removes said solder.



I'm just making sure you are aware of these devices :)

matt4949:
I prefer to use a wick (a braided flat strip of copper) when desoldering.
Coat wick with rosen.
Place wick on solder to be removed.
Touch solder iron to wick and draw out the solder.
 

spystyle:
Oh yeah, I forgot about that :)

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