Recently I had quite a catastrophe with a 3 up mcpcb. I got solder all over the jumpers, and the solder ran from jumper pad to jumper pad, which is what causing it to short. I got my led’s off. The board may be wasted, but I would figured I ask is it possible to get the old solder off and be able to start over?
put it in a skillet (cast iron or something similar), carefully heat it up, and while the solder is still liquid, wipe it with a paper towel.
Never done it myself, but I have heard it works well.
I have a heat gun on my soldering station, could I do it that way?
There are desoldering pumps and desoldering braid made for things like that.
You also can just try to catch the solder up with a soldering iron, I tend to swing the soldering iron to throw off the solder on the floor and after that try to catch up more. I use this all the time when I made a ugly big solder blob. But sometimes the solder sticks more on something and won’t move to the iron, then I use the first two methods.
I use desoldering braid, it literally sucks up the solder when you use it correctly.
Not necessarilly this one but this is the sort of stuff: LINK when you heat it and the solder up it almost absorbs it like a sponge.
I bought both. We’ll see what happens
Some braid has flux in it and some doesn’t. Add if it doesn’t.