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Originally Posted by Station X
I have to confess to melting solder joints with an iron and then blowing away the solder with a jet of compressed air. It leave joints very clean.
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I've not heard of that, but I have resorted to getting joints hot, then turning the chassis the right way up and slamming it hard onto the bench, to dislodge most of the solder.
Look after your eyes when de-soldering: the plunger handle of unshrouded desolder pumps can poke you in the eye. And don't do what I did as a child while desoldering some co-ax from a CB aerial plug and hold it up to the ceiling light to see whether the central pin was clear of solder. It wasn't, until a large ball of molten solder dropped out, missing my eye (and head) by a couple of inches.