Arfa Daily wrote in message
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"N_Cook" wrote in message
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Arfa Daily wrote in message
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I would have thought pretty much to the wire breaking point. How many
times
have you hooked a screwdriver or whatever, under a component in order to
unsolder one end, then heated the joint on the other side of the board,
whilst applying pressure to the link / component, only to then have it
snap
on you, because you were heating the joint next to the one you were
supposed
to be ... :-)

Arfa



One problem is ,for likes of TO92 and standardised tug , the use of surgical
artery forceps to grip before pulling, too much grip force and you squash
the lead.
I just tried with a board and counter weights on kitchen scales and I would
say I use about 1Kg of tug with thin nose pliers, pulling perpendicular to
the pcb.

What date was the VOX ? I've previously found 2 ,tug test failing, loose
links due to PbF on a 2005 Vox AC30 , AC30CC2X . Found in passing as
otherwise in for valve and intrusive tremolo initiated rumble


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