How To Clean Up Solder From Connections Repair Guide

Difficulty

Moderate

Steps

5

Time Required

                          5 - 10 minutes            

Sections

1

• How to Clean Up Solder from Connections
• 5 steps

Flags

Member-Contributed Guide

An awesome member of our community made this guide. It is not managed by iFixit staff.

• BackSoldering Skills

• Full Screen

• Options

• History

• Save to Favorites

• Download PDF

• Edit

• Translate

• Get Shareable Link

• Embed This Guide

• Notify Me of Changes

• Stop Notifications

Introduction

What you need

Step 1

              How to Clean Up Solder from Connections               

• The materials needed for this are a soldering iron, soldering paste and desoldering wire, also known as a wick.

The materials needed for this are a soldering iron, soldering paste and desoldering wire, also known as a wick.

1024

Step 2

• There are many types of soldering paste many of which are in a syringe like tube which makes it easy to get the paste in the exact spot it needs to be.
• I personally use a plastic opening tool to scoop a little out and apply it gently on the spot I will be working on.

There are many types of soldering paste many of which are in a syringe like tube which makes it easy to get the paste in the exact spot it needs to be.

I personally use a plastic opening tool to scoop a little out and apply it gently on the spot I will be working on.

Step 3

• The location I will be de-soldering is right above the SPK location in the photo.

The location I will be de-soldering is right above the SPK location in the photo.

Step 4

• Place the de-soldering wick on the solder joint and put the tip of the soldering iron on it so the wick can heat up and absorb the old solder.
• Please remember that logic board components are very fragile and excessive heat can destroy these components.
• Lift the wick and the soldering iron up from the logic board at the same time. Failure to do so can cause the leftover solder to harden and solder the wick to the logic board and you could easily pull a logic board pad off.

Place the de-soldering wick on the solder joint and put the tip of the soldering iron on it so the wick can heat up and absorb the old solder.

Please remember that logic board components are very fragile and excessive heat can destroy these components.

Lift the wick and the soldering iron up from the logic board at the same time. Failure to do so can cause the leftover solder to harden and solder the wick to the logic board and you could easily pull a logic board pad off.

Step 5

• What’s left over is clean points on the solder board, ready for fresh solder.

What’s left over is clean points on the solder board, ready for fresh solder.

Cancel: I did not complete this guide.

                                                                                      67 other people completed this guide.                                             

Author

                                      with 4 other contributors 

                    Romin                     

Member since: 04/29/2013

3,546 Reputation

                                      1 Guide authored                  



                       Badges:
                       14







                                                        +11 more badges                           

Muhamamd Asif - Apr 16, 2018

Reply

Well Explained