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Posted by Ignoramus1782 on January 30, 2008, 1:53 am
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I just finished a mini project. I fixed a "broken" Miller XMT 300
CC/CV welding machine, which had the switch for the display
broken. That switch was switching the display between showing voltage
or current on a mini LED screen.
The broken switch had to be desoldered and a new one had to be
soldered in.
The issue that I ran into was desoldering. I have a "Pace SMD 2000
desoldering station" from my younger military surplus days. This
station has a tool that is like a soldering iron, but has a axial hole
in the tip and an adapter for a vacuum, and the built in vacuum. When
I push on a pedal, the vacuum starts sucking through the tip. So I
would melt the solder with the hot tip, push the pedal and...
My problem was that it barely sucked. Not enough to vacuum in the solder
from the circuit board.
As a stopgap measure, I used my 1/3 HP vacuum pump by connecting it to
the desoldering tool and turning on at the proper moment.
In the end, it all worked, the old switch was removed, a new one
installed, and the welder has a working selector of V vs. A display.
All this leads me to the conclusion that something is wrong with the
vacuum pump on this station. Would you say that it should provide very
strong suction?
Any experience here?
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Posted by Bob La Londe on January 30, 2008, 2:03 am
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Two words.
Solder wick.
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Posted by Dave Plowman (News) on January 30, 2008, 10:26 am
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> Solder wick.
You don't have a proper desolder tool, then? ;-)
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Posted by Bob La Londe on January 30, 2008, 10:52 am
Please log in for more thread options >> Two words.
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>> Solder wick.
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> You don't have a proper desolder tool, then? ;-)
I have several solder suckers. In close quarters sometimes solder wick does
the trick, and it always works. I've got one of those big blue nasty
things, and a couple of smaller aluminum solder suckers. In close quarters
I still find myself reach for the solder wick.
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Posted by William Sommerwerck on January 30, 2008, 11:23 am
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> In close quarters sometimes solder wick does the trick,
> and it always works.
Any desoldering method sometimes needs a bit of fresh solder to
"loosen things up" so the solder can be sucked out of the hole.
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