[sdiy] tips for rotary switch removal?

[Tim Parkhurst]

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 7:14 AM, dan snazelle <subjectivity at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I have an important board that I need to fix which has a 8 way rotary switch which is bad.
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> so that is 10 pins total to desolder.
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> every time I have tried to desolder one before I end up damaging the board trying to rip the switch out.
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> and advice on this?

Can you clip the leads and remove the switch body? If the switch is
bad anyway, I would just clip the leads, remove the switch body, and
then carefully desolder and remove the remaining bits of pin lead one
at a time (much easier). Would still take Paul's advice on a good
desoldering tool. That's going to be useful in a lot of situations.


Tim (or just hit it with a bigger hammer) Servo
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