Thanks for the tip. I can't tell you how many pads I've lifted over the years. I now use a very small pointed tip and some steel wool on the opposite side of the hole. Your tip is a lot better, less chance of damage, and a whole lot easier. Going to do it your way from now on. TNX again.

Have a cert for mil-std soldering and have worked many mil-avionics boards. An actual better technique with less heating and repeat-heating is to use finely stranded silver plated wire (usually found on teflon and available if you look; esp. mil stuff). By first lightly tinning the very front of the stranded wire, (without excessive wicking) then trimming to leave just a small solid tip, you can then saturate the reset of the strands behind with a good grade f flux; make sure to leave the insulation on the help keep the strands stiff and aligned. Then, you place your tinned iron on the pad, then follow with the wire atop the hole and apply heat now to the wire. The outside will soften and allow you to push it through the hole before the center of the wire softens and gives way. Finally, shove the stranded wire in about 3/8" slowly then immediately pull back up. This may sound like a lot but yu will quickly get the hang of it and only subject the pad/hole to 1/3 the amount of heat and stress. The fluxed-stranded o(and silver-plated) wire is so-so much better at sucking up the solder...

Don't forget to apply flux onto your wick before using it . 🇬🇧

Would love to see another episode removing ICs or other through hole components where solder removal is stubborn. Even with a desoldering rig.Thanks for this!

You are a magician! Awesome. I used to build 9 layer boards for the IC industry for testing ICs and you have a great technique and process.

Just melt solder with soldering iron, and put wooden tooth pick in hole. You cant make any damage with toothpick, yet you clear hole by pushing solder away.

I use compressed air gun on one side apply pointed iron on other side apply air pull iron away first works fine for me. A small o ring fixed or glued to airgun helps seal air against the board . Warning eye safety wear is a must

Good video. I've lifted pcb contacts while struggling with this issue in the past.

Great information. Kind of wish the camera operator would have zoomed in a little closer because I am on a mobile phone right now, but I will look at it on a larger screen when I get to one.

Number one video on Sodering thanks for sharing 😎 👍

Thanks so much, I’ve been struggling hard with exactly this problem. I was so close, all I was missing was a piece of wire! That’s the difference between having the gear and knowing the tricks. Thank you

Great tutorial. Thank you.

Thank you for the great video.

Brilliant thats all I can say, many thanks.

Great tip! Thanks!

You sir, are my hero. Great video and even better advice.

Rather than a toothpick , what can also work is a pencil lead. The 0.5mm automatic pencil leads may be worth trying too.

Very nice, thank you.

Excellent video!!

Thanks for this. I dont have anything to heat the board to 200*F, but did try using the lead of a resistor to push through, and on the way out used a wick to absorb what was there. It helped get me out of a jam I was in for several hours after my desolder station didn't want to suck out whatever was blocking it. Ground on a multi layer board like you said happens.

Nice tip I will give the technique a try but I dont have a board heater.

Great Info!

Thank you for sharing. I have used compressed air in a can too to blow the solder out.

For small boards I use inertial displacement desoldering. It works very well where there are components in place

thanks for this advice...

An interesting technique, I do something similar without all the pro gear, I will include solder wick next time. I think you have a very interesting channel about board repair, if I may, I'd like to suggest that you get some better camera equipment for close up videoing so we can see exactly what you are doing. Your description on this occasion was excellent but I fear when a repair that has a more complex procedure will not be as clear in spite of the excellent verbal description. Subbed.

Thank You

Very interesting.

thanks i will try that.

Nice video, thanks :)

helped me out of a jam replacing an hdmi on ps5. solder sucker would not work. i didn't use solder wick. i didn't have bus wire so i stripped a few strands of cat 6. used a wagner furno 750 heat gun since the 500 watt heatgun rework station was useless. pushed the cat 6 trough the hole, cut off the portion below that was covered with solder, and continued that process until the holes were clean enough to drop in the new hdmi port.

im gonna try your method :).

What magnifying Light Lens did you use?

A stainless steel dentist's pick often works for the bigger holes ( tried - n - tested ) ........ DAVE™🛑

do you have anything that can take.me back to before I fried part of my PC and then I can learn this first? thanks in advance

An elementary question . . . is there a specific reason that you preheat the board? Less likely to crack?

was that a heater below the board? Will this method work if we don't have that fancy heater? Thanks.

I flux it and wick it 👍🏼

What kind of light are you using?

Why's this dude look like Jane's dad from breaking bad

If you can't get solder out with braid, it's likely you haven't used flux or you're not putting heat in the correct location to draw the solder out.

Wow. This is primitive. Any decent soldering workstation includes a vacuum powered solder sucker that makes this task a complete no-brainer. I got certified for avionics soldering in 1983 at Keesler AFB when I was a full time bench technician, and I can't believe this is even considered a good option when there are so many better tools to do this same thing with ZERO damage to the board or the runs. This is like using a mechanical wire stripper when a thermal stripper is head and shoulders better than any sharp cutting tool for stripping wires, especially when the insulation is Teflon as it is on all modern aircraft.

Very good tip... but engineers all over the world are irritated by the use of that obsolete temperature scale 'Farenheit'. Come on America, GET METRIC.

What's farenheight? The entire world, except for one country, uses Celcius! Get with the program.

Thank you captain obvious. We all knew this so u didn't really help