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Offline jim20afTopic starter

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Desoldering
« on: August 13, 2006, 04:24:57 PM »
I was reading an article on how to build a mousebot, and it said something about a desoldering tool.  I know what it means, but what exactly would the tool be and how would I desolder something?
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Re: Desoldering
« Reply #1 on: August 13, 2006, 09:07:15 PM »
A solder sucker!!!
http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=DGUS,DGUS:2006-11,DGUS:en&q=solder%20sucker&sa=N&tab=wi

Basically you heat up the solder with a solder iron, then push a button on this thing and it sucks up all the solder.

You can also use a solder wick
http://images.google.com/images?svnum=30&hs=XKS&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&rls=DGUS%2CDGUS%3A2006-11%2CDGUS%3Aen&q=solder+wick

But they suck (in a bad way).
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Re: Desoldering
« Reply #2 on: October 05, 2006, 02:19:41 AM »
What was in the mousebot article, and could you tell me where you found it?
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