I tried my first hand at soldering today and I accidentally dropped a bit of solder across these pins, so before I go forward I'm wondering if this is even salvageable as a board or is it pretty much toast?
Is this solder job salvageable?
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BL4K3Y
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Martin C
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Yes it's salvageable.
Unless you were trying to flood the pins on the IC with solder, give it to someone else to fix.
Accidentally or not, dropping solder shouldn't even be an issue and shows a very poor technique. Do NOT attempt to solder to anything that works until you've learned how to do it correctly.
Unless you were trying to flood the pins on the IC with solder, give it to someone else to fix.
Accidentally or not, dropping solder shouldn't even be an issue and shows a very poor technique. Do NOT attempt to solder to anything that works until you've learned how to do it correctly.
^ LOL again, your'e in the sarcasm mood today this is your'e second post that made me laugh.
OP: use a desoldering pump or braid pretty cheap stuff. And try to practice first on any old or damaged boards
hersheys247
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By the looks of it, he tried to pick up solder with iron and ended up spreading it. If that was your first intention than im worried another rest of the board. Anyway, desolder wick, and flux
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Thats EXACTLY what I was thinking. Like did he think that you had to load up the iron with solder like a resevoir first or something? Cuz that's alot of solder to just "drop"
.But yeah like everyone says its definetly salvagable. But by the looks of it you may want to have someone with a little more soldering skill to do it for you, because after desoldering that mess a small amount of solder may have to be re-added to each leg afterwards to ensure a proper connection from the IC to the board again. Thats what I would do anyways.