I want to see your work HisNameIsL.
See if I helped you any at all.
Laugh.
You did not reply, so I don’t know.
And looks like you got the stuff earlier than thought.
Yeah… Lizardlick was amazingly fast. They shipped the day I ordered it (Saturday) and it got here today.
I forgot to shoot you a reply back. But yeah, I’ll be following your guides. 
By the by… is 140/100 watts too much for soldering a PCB? That’s what my soldering iron is.
I used a 15 watt
Way too much. 15/20 watts is enough. Any higher will burn the contacts off of the pcb.
Is it okay for desoldering with a braid, though…? 'Cause I kinda already started (and I’m doing a poor job, btw. It’s not working.)
I found a desolder bulb more effective.
This is good video about.
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It should be fine. Take JDM’s advice. He’s really reliable on this.
Laugh.
I use braid for this type of PCB work.
But you can use a bulb if like.
My pump moves so quick that sometimes I miss the spot.
So I use braid more, and only pump when I have hard spots to remove.
I can’t even get the friggen solder to melt. What am I doing wrong?
JDM - Do you have AIM or anything like that?
If you’re using an iron with that high wattage and the solder isn’t melting… I have to ask… are you sure it’s plugged in?
Seriously though, you should use a cooler iron. You could melt through a PCB with something that high.
It is plugged in… and I’m dead fucking serious. It’s not melting. It is an old soldering iron, though, and the tip is practically black… would that have anything to do with it? Does wal-mart sell cheap soldering irons? I might run and get one.
If it’s not getting hot, it’s either broken or needs a new tip. Regardless, working or not, the iron you have currently is not appropriate for the work you’re trying to do.
Radio Shack definitely does. Walmart? I don’t know. Check their web page.
I sort of can’t believe I had to explain that.
I think the solder is not melting because tip is dirty.
When iron tip is dirty, it has hard time getting the heat going to solder for melting.
You clean the tip with a sponge?
Or could be that your soldering iron is not getting hot enough.
I ran to Wal-Mart and got a 25-watt soldering iron for 10 bucks. Do you have AIM, jdm?
Desoldering is, by far, the most frustrating electrical work I’ve ever done. This desoldering braid sucks some serious shit. I even managed to tear off a little bit of the PCB. Am I fucked now?
its single layer PCB so you should be fine as long as you didn’t remove any contact so if you just removed some of the green surface you should be fine
so I’ve decided I’m going to just mount the PCB with some mounting stands onto the plastic inside of the stick after my wiring is complete. using electrical tape just doesn’t seem clean/professional, it seems like ghetto rigging lulz
What do you do if a contact on the PCB is removed, or if there is very little of the contact left?
You can scrape part of the Trace, and then solder on that.
Scrape I mean by peeling off the green line, to expose the solderable goodness under.
So you are having trouble use of desoldering braid?
You have a desoldering pump to use?