Here's another stupid question... I have had what seems to be pretty good success removing and putting in caps on my practice board. Now, on my 5th try I haven't been so lucky. Like usual, I remove the cap, then add solder to the back, heat it up and use a bulb sucker to clean it. After the second drag there still isn't a large enough hole for the cap so I went to the needle proceedure. I added solder heated it up agin and put the needle in and it won't go through very far. I didn't force it but tried the needle process again. No go. Now I'm a little worried. Tried it again and now things are looking a bit spooky. The hole is a bit discolored on the inside and the solder isn't penetrating. I have feeling by now the traces or whatever are screwed, burnt, have copious amounts of residue or whatever. I don't know. My soldering iron is good. I'm using silver bearing solder with a resin core... uhh..
I have 2 questions, does anyone know what might have happened... and, are there some extreme measures that a person might try to open the via up when it probably doesn't matter anymore and maybe I could just get lucky trying?
Thanks
I have 2 questions, does anyone know what might have happened... and, are there some extreme measures that a person might try to open the via up when it probably doesn't matter anymore and maybe I could just get lucky trying?
Thanks
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