On 3 May, 19:56, "Sofie" wrote:
jderudder:
You didn't "lift too much solder"..... you pulled up the solder pad, by
probably using too much heat for too long. As another reply suggested you
can run the wire through the hole and use a short jumper wire to connect to
the circuit... unless, of course this is a multi-layer board and you pulled
the plated through hole out, then you may be screwed.
You may want to scrape the black dot with an exacto knife... if there is
metal under there you can tin it and re-solder... in that case, you dodged
a bullet and you are very lucky... go buy a lotto ticket.
Best Regards,
Daniel Sofie
Electronics Supply & Repair
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Hi,

I hope somebody can help me with this. I was soldering a few wires on
an electronic board which has very fine contacts (Apologies for the
terms but I am a real sunday solderer!). It was going fairly well
until I used soldering braid to clean up one and ended up with no
solder at all on the contact on the board. Now I seem to have a black
dot instead of any solder on the point and therefore I cannot complete
my work. Can anything be done to salvage this board??

Thanks!!

Thanks a lot for all your help... Now I know why I should have got a
proper soldering iron in the first place. I have one of those all ON
or OFF and the heat was probably too high for this. I think my only
option left is to solder some hookup wire directly on the pin of the
chip. With a good iron this time, do you think this is feasible?