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I wonder if it's worth the effort sure it may reflow solder if it's hot enough but the high temp lead-free solder or whatever Apple uses may require very high t
by dghughes 12y ago
I wonder if it's worth the effort sure it may reflow solder if it's hot enough but the high temp lead-free solder or whatever Apple uses may require very high temperatures to get it to melt even a bit.
I've changed enough capacitors on power supplies to know the damn things have solder that's practically indestructible, our old Pace solder station iron cranked to something like 850F and still I'm sitting there 5 or 10 minutes cursing it all the time, and nine more caps to go x two leads each.
Plus that heat would degrade the life of components too so who knows if it's ever worth it. But I guess cheaper than spending thousands on a new Macbook Pro.
- sfeng 12y agoOften the issue is the component is sinking most of the heat away from the joint. If the giant chunk of metal your heating can dissipate the power of your soldering iron, you're not gonna heat much up.
- dghughes 12y agoTrue but even with the component removed and trying to clean up jagged solder on legs it's tough stuff to get to melt. This is the solder that comes from the factory we just use the lead-free regular stuff when it goes back in.
- dghughes 12y agoTrue but even with the component removed and trying to clean up jagged solder on legs it's tough stuff to get to melt. This is the solder that comes from the factory we just use the lead-free regular stuff when it goes back in.