Re: [NTLK] eMate overclocked

From: Dennis B. Swaney <romad_at_aol.com>
Date: Fri Jun 12 2009 - 09:56:28 EDT

Sonny Hung wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Matt Howe <matthowe@comcast.net> wrote:
>> Have you ever tried solder wicking?
>
>
> No, but I don't think it would be of a higher success rate or effectiveness
> to my unstrained experience.
> There is little solder used already, but the issue IMO is that this is a
> surface mount installation where a good portion of the soldered surface is
> hidden underneath the crystal actually.
> I think if I had more effective tools such as an appropriate soldering tip
> that was pointed and thin enough maybe my experience would have been better.
>
> This is an untrained non-technical understanding that I'm looking at it from
> ... though I've got a decent amount of actual soldering and de-soldering
> experience.
>

Sonny,

Have you tried a DE-soldering iron?

http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2062731&CAWELAID=107592455

-- 
Sincerely,
Dennis B. Swaney
"Windows is a command-line OS with a GUI shell while Mac System 10 is 
... oh, never mind."
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