[sdiy] Error on the SoundBite board!

[tsheets at saturn5.com]

The trick to unsoldering SMDs is to glob a ton of solder on them, then it
falls right off. Then use the desolder braid to clean up.  Glob enough solder
so it bridges both sides of the 0805.  Easy.

-troy

On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 02:33:19PM -0700, Adam Schabtach wrote:
> > Took me about 3min to swap out, now it works perfectly.
> 
> Do you have a good trick for unsoldering 0805s? Or do you have rework tools?
> Just curious; undsoldering SMT packages turns out to be a lot trickier than
> soldering them, in my experience.
> 
> --Adam
> 
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