Re: de-Solder wick/braid

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Re: de-Solder wick/braid

Lloyd Lachow

--- [hidden email] wrote:

> Lloyd,
>   Are you supposed to but the braid *on top* of the
> iron which is heating the solder you are trying to
> remove?  
>
>   I always just put the braid on the joint and
> placed the tip of the soldering iron on top of the
> braid, heating the braid and the solder.  Would like
> to know the correct way, I certainly seem to do a
> lot of solder removal...hi


  Sorry if my wording was unclear...of course, I lay
the braid on top of the (filled) hole, then hold the
iron vertically and press it down, through the braid,
into the hole - but through the braid. Wouldn't work
the other way!

   LL/K3ESE


               
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