I’m now picturing a stoic Scotsman with a soldering iron suddenly slapping a board on the table with ninja-like speed, then carrying on soldering like nothing had happened.
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I listed some options earlier in this thread:
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So far so good. They were what I had on hand when I started, and are cheap. I can see them failing at some point, but are cheap and easy to replace when/if they do. For my diy non-PCs modules they’ve been working great so far. If I was performing professionally I probably wouldn’t use them. But as a hobbyist…I’m fine with them.
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Stoic Scots just take a dram and spit the blocked solder out. Lovely to see ivor Cutler!
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I have the solder sucker my dumbassery requires it. It does the business.
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I’ve been a lot more relaxed about needing to desolder since I got the Engineer solder sucker.
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Same. I’ve posted in this thread enough to invest in one.
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That will work for one pad, but I really advocate for braid on hand in case you need to clean something like a chip header. Those are practically impossible without some braid to suck it up, and it’s bound to happen at some point.
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The braid is my savior.
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I hated braid…until I tried the MG Super Wick. That stuff is like magic. Now I prefer braid over the sucker in most situations. The other trick is using the right size braid. The “yellow” #442 works best for me on most things…but I also keep the larger green #425 on hand for larger components.
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I after many attempts for messing up clearances. Tend too make a position template out of a bit of plywood for placement then position it is place clamp it down and drill. Then after I completed it I use the aluminum for a template if I am making more then one.
When you need too make it very tight.
this is my mixer module
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It turns out pretty funky ! 
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When you discover that, like a complete rookie, you got a variable resistor connected backwards on your PCB layout, you can toss out your module and try again, sacrificing eight 9mm B100ks in the process, or you can bodge.
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yep, got the t-shirt for that one
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Whoops, got a little aggressive with the flush cuts there…
But a little bit of cut off lead and careful soldering:
Rescued!
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So uh… I finished this filter… and it was REALLY quiet… no smoke tho…
I used BC547’s and 557’s… the sheet calls for 2N3904’s and 3906’s…
Does anyone see what I did wrong here… lol
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No sweat, that’s only, what, eighteen wait nineteen transistors you need to re-do?
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wanna know what makes it even moar dumb…
I forgot I had ordered 2n3904’s and 2n3906’s and they’re sitting in my mailbox… lol
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