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Title: pin sockets soldered together
Post by: tubesornothing on August 17, 2015, 08:43:31 pm

A whie back I had a few amps assembled by a newbie.  I have just gotten around to finishing them off and noticed that half the sockets have too much solder.  The solder has gotten into the pin area and soldered the two halves of the pin together.  :BangHead:


I have tried the solder sucker to no avail.


Any suggestions?


thanks

Title: Re: pin sockets soldered together
Post by: shooter on August 17, 2015, 09:26:10 pm

Quote

I had a few amps assembled by a newbie

Ummmmm, anyway

try wick, I personally like the NTE brand, be carful of heat

Title: Re: pin sockets soldered together
Post by: sluckey on August 17, 2015, 09:47:30 pm

Heat until the solder is liquid and use an air compressor with blow nozzle. Blow from the inside of the chassis! Works best if the socket is removed first.

Title: Re: pin sockets soldered together
Post by: eleventeen on August 17, 2015, 09:57:31 pm

PLEASE wear safety goggles if you are going to blow molten solder w/compressed air!

Title: Re: pin sockets soldered together
Post by: tubesornothing on August 18, 2015, 09:36:00 am

Quote from: sluckey on August 17, 2015, 09:47:30 pm

Heat until the solder is liquid and use an air compressor with blow nozzle. Blow from the inside of the chassis! Works best if the socket is removed first.

Great idea thanks. 

Title: Re: pin sockets soldered together
Post by: casssax on August 18, 2015, 02:50:18 pm

I have one of those cheap Radio Shack de-soldering irons with the squeeze bulb. It sometimes takes a little while to get the solder hot enough but once it is flowing it works ok. Much better than the spring loaded solder sucker that I have. Works well for opening up the holes in solder lugs too.

(https://photos1.blogger.com/img/64/3625/1024/iron.jpg)

Title: Re: pin sockets soldered together
Post by: kagliostro on August 18, 2015, 03:39:48 pm

One other thing

if you decide to use compressed air, as told, remove the socket, when you use the jet of compressed air on the liquid solder

the solder will fly as a spray and if it attacks to other pieces of the amp it is difficult to be removed

I discovered this when I started to recover components from old PCB

K