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Desoldering iron best investment so far
tgujay:
I'm currently in the process of renovating an old Chicony with mx blues and a desoldering iron made the process immensely less time consuming. So far I have removed all the switches and am going to sand and repaint the plate. Since the plate was rusty and some of the switches have rust/gunk on them, is there a preferred method of cleaning switches?
WhiteFireDragon:
Which desoldering iron do you have?
tgujay:
--- Quote from: WhiteFireDragon on Wed, 29 August 2012, 13:37:03 ---Which desoldering iron do you have?
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Radioshack cheap thing with a bulb, works great.
PointyFox:
Is bulb better than the solder sucker? Mine sucks, but not in a good way.
IvanIvanovich:
I have one of those too, makes desoldering an entire board worth of switches sooooooooo easy. Definitely worth $11. Certainly cheaper that chewing through braid.
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