4 Apr
2011
4 Apr
'11
11:44 a.m.
Use a nice big Soldapullt? Cleans the holes for me,
particularly if
you hold the PCB in a board vise and use the Soldapullt on one side,
while apply heat (and a little solder) to the other side. Push the
button and the hole is clean as a whistle.
Yes, I do that too. I upgraded an HP Integral RAM board from 512K to 1M.
This involved adding 16 more 41256 ICs + decoupling capacitors. Of coruse
the original board was wave-soldered at the factory so all the holes were
blocked. I hat to clean them all out by this method.
Little Soldapullts are next to worthless. Get the big one (DS017 or
its variant versions).
I do use solder wick, but mostly for soldering SMT ICs.
Me too. The fine stuff is very useful for cleaning up accidental bridges
between the pins on an SMD device.
-tony