I have done some recapping in the past (power supplies and old stereos) and thought I was pretty good at it so am thinking of recapping an ASUS A7N8X motherboard. I've got one of these that's worthless and one that can probably be recapped, so I thought I would try removing some on the bad one. Just to see how it goes. Per the advice here.
My soldering station is a Hakko 936, which is 65W, and I figured it would work fine. It seems not!
If these caps have pads they are so small as to be almost invisible. At one point I became convinced there was no actual pad, just solder in the via. Is that possible?
Anyway, it was surprisingly hard to get the negative lead out on all three that I tried, but the pos one came out pretty easy. Weird, huh? I found myself holding the tip on there for almost a minute waiting for the thing to finally get loose, and then the lead seemed to be so tight in hole that I really had to pull. And yes, I know that it not advised, but it seemed the only way.
I must have spent about 15 minutes getting each one out, and then later trying to get the hole opened enough to put a new one in seemed like near impossible.
Basically, these holes seem impossibly tight. I was noticing the old cap had leads that were slightly thinner than a new one of the same value. I am talking about just a few thousandths of an inch (I measured) and it was making a difference!
So I am wondering if you experts have seen holes being this tight, and if there's some trick I haven't found in the FAQ here, or should just I just give up?
My soldering station is a Hakko 936, which is 65W, and I figured it would work fine. It seems not!
If these caps have pads they are so small as to be almost invisible. At one point I became convinced there was no actual pad, just solder in the via. Is that possible?
Anyway, it was surprisingly hard to get the negative lead out on all three that I tried, but the pos one came out pretty easy. Weird, huh? I found myself holding the tip on there for almost a minute waiting for the thing to finally get loose, and then the lead seemed to be so tight in hole that I really had to pull. And yes, I know that it not advised, but it seemed the only way.
I must have spent about 15 minutes getting each one out, and then later trying to get the hole opened enough to put a new one in seemed like near impossible.
Basically, these holes seem impossibly tight. I was noticing the old cap had leads that were slightly thinner than a new one of the same value. I am talking about just a few thousandths of an inch (I measured) and it was making a difference!
So I am wondering if you experts have seen holes being this tight, and if there's some trick I haven't found in the FAQ here, or should just I just give up?
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