Removing excess solder help

The_Other_One

The_Other_One

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I'm normally OK when it comes to soldering, but I've run into a bit of a problem here. Basically I was removing a broken jack from a laptop. My usual method is a desoldering iron using solder with a rosin core. Add a little solder, suck the old out and you I end up with a nice clean area.

Problem this time, when I added the solder to remove the old junk, the solder kind of spread on the PCB. Now there are some pools of solder around each of the holes, some is touching or nearly touching.

The solder is too thin to simply suck off using the soldering iron. It wont scrape off (well, not easily). I'm not very familiar with using desoldering braid. I tried it a little but it ended up getting soldered to the board.

I'll try the braid a little more, I even considering a really light sand paper/emery cloth. Just would like to know if anyone has any special methods of getting this crap off to prep it for re-soldering.
 
I always just use desoldering braid, never a sucker by any means. The trick is to place the braid over your solder, and then place the soldering iron on top to heat the braid and the solder underneath. Once the solder has melted onto the braid, you lift up the braid and the iron at the same time (so it doesn't cool down and solder to the board). Best of luck. Hope this helps.
 
kobaj said:
I always just use desoldering braid, never a sucker by any means. The trick is to place the braid over your solder, and then place the soldering iron on top to heat the braid and the solder underneath. Once the solder has melted onto the braid, you lift up the braid and the iron at the same time (so it doesn't cool down and solder to the board). Best of luck. Hope this helps.
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Yeah that is the best way to do it, from what you were saying it seems you were doing something wrong, it should not stick to your pcb. Just make sure the gun is hot enough. Worst case: compressed air works very well. Bit messy but it does the trick ;)
 
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