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    electronics, desoldering is the removal of solder and components from a circuit board for troubleshooting, repair, replacement, and salvage. Desoldering tools...
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    prior to resoldering — desoldering braids (or wicks) or vacuum desoldering equipment (solder suckers) can be used. Desoldering wicks contain plenty of...
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    tools for soldering are: contact soldering irons; desoldering tweezers or SMD hot tweezers; desoldering gun; hot air gun; infrared heater. Soldering iron...
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    pickup tool, and a soldering head; a desoldering station will have a desoldering head with vacuum pump for desoldering through-hole components, and a soldering...
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    refinish of a printed circuit board (PCB) assembly, usually involving desoldering and re-soldering of surface-mounted electronic components (SMD). Mass...
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    probes. Desoldering the chips is done carefully and slowly, so that the heat does not destroy the chip or data. Before the chip is desoldered the PCB...
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    soldering iron. Without developed skill, when manually soldering or desoldering a component, it is easy to accidentally reflow the solder of an adjacent...
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  • weight: 49% Bi, 18% Pb, 21% In, 12% Sn. It is also known as ChipQuik desoldering alloy. and Lens Alloy 136, used for mounting lenses and other optical...
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    widely used in the electronics industry as a method of soldering and desoldering components onto circuit boards. Hot plates with two heating surfaces...
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    melting point, close to that of the material itself, to prevent the joint desoldering during firing in the enameling process. The remaining solder types are...
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    electronic devices while simultaneously heating them, for soldering or desoldering. Tweezer probes are a pair of electrical test probes fixed to a tweezer...
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    damaged mechanically. The unit does not have enough power for effective desoldering of many board- and chassis-mounted components. The design of the tip...
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    CPU can be overclocked to higher frequencies by either soldering or desoldering certain zero-ohm resistors on the logic board. An ATI Radeon 9200 graphics...
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    referred to as Teflon bone folders. PTFE is commonly used for the tip of desoldering pumps due to its high melting temperature. While PTFE is stable at lower...
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    powered off. These batteries had a limited lifespan and needed to be desoldered for replacement. The SRAM chips were later phased out in favor of the...
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    devices required to support 8 MB. Earlier revisions of the A5000 required desoldering of the fitted MEMC1a to provide such a socket. In 1992, Acorn introduced...
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  • may require decapping or desoldering of integrated circuit chips from the circuit board of the device they own. A desoldered IC is placed into a chip...
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    conductive part of the pin, slicing the PCB traces, or on some cards, desoldering surface mount resistors. Apple Displays HDI-45 connector (a previous...
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    limited reuse may be possible, more than a few cycles of soldering and desoldering are likely to render both the components and the board unusable. In contrast...
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    particles into the air that can travel hundreds-to-thousands of miles. Desoldering is a technique used to extract higher-value materials like gold and silver...
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    Various SMD chips, desoldered...
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    motherboard, which requires partial dis-assembly of the computer and desoldering a part with several pins; many companies charge a considerable sum for...
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    7Bi33.3 72.7 In61.7Bi30.8Cd7.5 62 Cd Yes Bi56Sn30In14 79 91 Yes ChipQuik desoldering alloy, lead-free In51.0Bi32.5Sn16.5 60.5 Yes Yes Field's metal Bi50.0Pb25...
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  • low-temperature physics. Bi 49, Pb 18, In 21, Sn 12 58 °C (136 °F) ChipQuik desoldering alloy. Cerrolow 136. Slightly expands on cooling, later shows slight...
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    removing socketed components on very early Electron models, but required desoldering work and therefore benefited from a fitting service for later units....
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  • increase of Au content can increase melting point by 30 °C), subsequent desoldering requires higher temperature. Forms a mixture of two brittle intermetallic...
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  • of the cover using a milling machine, saw blade, using hot air or by desoldering and cutting. The process can be either destructive or non-destructive...
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    since replacing them required partial dismantling of the camera body and desoldering the battery from a flexible circuit board. The camera will still operate...
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    or no signal from the coaxial connector. This is easily repairable by desoldering the tuner shield and re-flowing new solder to each connection inside...
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    thermistor that it also encloses. The positive and negative wires can be desoldered from their tabs, minding the iron tip does not make contact with the cell...
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