Hi!
I would like to hear some opinions about my way of doing a recap.
First of all I've done this on all recaps and I never failed
Here's the way I do it, I cut off the capacitor with a plier about 1/3 of the cap height from the board then I carefully lift what's left of the capacitor leaving to legs on the board, then I just grip one leg at a time with a plier and heat with the soldering iron on the other side of the board and very carefully drag them out one by one.
Think this will save lot's of vias for those who isn't to familiar with a soldering iron.
what's good about this?
Since you just heat once the chance that the vias are destroyed are at a minimum.
Ofcourse on some boards caps are mounted pretty close so getting the plier there could be a problem
Northern Swedish way of doing it
I would like to hear some opinions about my way of doing a recap.
First of all I've done this on all recaps and I never failed
Here's the way I do it, I cut off the capacitor with a plier about 1/3 of the cap height from the board then I carefully lift what's left of the capacitor leaving to legs on the board, then I just grip one leg at a time with a plier and heat with the soldering iron on the other side of the board and very carefully drag them out one by one.
Think this will save lot's of vias for those who isn't to familiar with a soldering iron.
what's good about this?
Since you just heat once the chance that the vias are destroyed are at a minimum.
Ofcourse on some boards caps are mounted pretty close so getting the plier there could be a problem
Northern Swedish way of doing it
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