Neat Method to Remove PCB Connectors / Desoldering Connectors 

Your dexterity is absolutely incredible. These "simple" shapes you make with such small amounts of wire are amazing (not only the ones in this video, but others as well like the DIY solder heat shrink thingies and how you join wires together so neatly).

Sometimes, a random video comes across the line that makes you sit back and wonder why everyone doesn't do this. Absolutely brilliant and what a master skill to possess. In utter awe.

Patience. More easily said than done. Great tutorial. Thanks.

Love your channel! It's a really great idea to have a channel that is dedicated to different soldering techniques! My hands are not as steady these days due to chronic pain and I am blinded in one eye due to a retina detachment that needs surgery and your channel here helps me greatly in being more efficient in soldering. Doing electronics and PC work is all I have these days to help me keep a positive outlook at very bad times for me and I do not want to loose this ability. Thanks bro, I am most definitely subscribed!! Be well!!! 😁😁👍👍

I seen your new video in my feed and said HELL YEAH! I agree, Take your time and be patient. People that do this sort of work and are impatient wind up spending more time fixing mistakes than anything else.

Brilliantly simple and well executed! Thank you for sharing this!

Thanks so much. You are so ingenious and make life easier for countless people (like me) who are faced with these kinds of problems often

Thanks for the time and work you put in. I an old hand been soldering most of my life but learned something new .

I wonder how much time and frustration your teaching has saved me!

Watching your videos is like watching ASMR. It is soothing for the soul! Keep up the good work.

Thank you! I have been wondering about a simple technique for doing this. The hole cleanup technique is great too.

I have just subscribed.Very clever way to do this I can say after destroying a couple of boards myself with no patience and way too much aggressive pressing with the iron. I look forward to checking out the rest of your videos,cheers

Great job, man! Thanks for sharing. I'll definitely use it!

I just stumbled across this and have been putting off a repair that I will need to remove this connector for; looking forward to trying it now 😀 Thanks so much.

Man i love your videos, you've helped my soldering skills so much in little time, of course more practice is essential, but man its so nice. I just watch them at my down time at work and I already feel much more confident. I recently got back into it while getting in to microcontrollers/programming arduino and raspberry pis. And now try to reach my goal of making some musical fx and synthesizers. Really feels great knowing these tricks and tips to improve and cleanup my soldering!

Just tried this on a 24p header and it came out so easily I was startled! Made my day!

Nice! Thank you for sharing this method!

Half of the challenge is knowing that it *can* be done. Thanks for the inspiration.

#1 tip always "be patient" - thanks for this demo, brilliant

I am learning so much from your videos! Thank you!!

I've had nightmares trying to take these kind of connectors out for years. (EE for nearly 25 years) Can't wait to try your technique out above on my next big connector. Great video.

Brilliant as ever, daunting jobs made easy, cheers 👍

Back to my old job repairing semi pro digital cameras, excellent technique.

Amazing! I would have never thought to add MORE solder when using the wick

Foxtrot Yankee! Excellent procedure! Greetings from New Mexico!

Nice. As an additional tip for hole clearing: I, sometimes, use a bulb from an ear wax removal kit to blow air through the back side - fast and reliable.

Clever! And thanks for the wicking tips and demonstration; that was helpful, too.

I love your videos and I am learning so much from your videos! Thank you!!

great ,i thought you just doing it to fool everyone till i saw that coming , at the end you got a great work bro thank you for sharing such great ideas.

Genius! Thank You, Mister! 🤩

Innovative, inventive, genius ! The solder wick / flux training here is on it's own worth it's weight in gold. I have ditched the solder sucker. No comparison.

Excellent job, thanks for sharing.

Simple and powerful! Thanks

Ive tried everything. Sucker abd wick still leave tiny amount of solder. Hot air melts the plastic. Just tried this and magic. Thanks you life saver!

Nicely done. Thanks for sharing

Excellent method mate. Takes lots of solder, but in all effective to remove the component intact.

Thankyou! I've struggled so many times before :)

That worked very well, good job sir!

Thank you for sharing that with us. Hands down the best method to desolder

Nice technique. I like to use soldering iron with "vacuum" (desoldering iron) or just some low-melt solder (e.g. SMD1-NL). The latter can get quite expensive, and needs careful cleaning afterwards but has saved many boards

Back in the late 70s, we used propane torches to heat a PC board till the solder melted, and a sharp rap of the board on a bucket would dislodge the components, and the bucket would catch them. This was great for depopulating a PC board of ALL components. Today, I use a small butane torch and only do a small area of a board, but it ends up damaging the board, badly, so it is unusable later. However, if I need to remove a component, and replace it in the board, I use a proper solder extraction tool. Over the years I have used many different styles, from the squeeze bulb, the spring powered "PULLET" type, to motorized vacuum extractors by Weller and others, and the temperature controlled, motorized extractors are the best, and today, you can get a combination solder/desolder station around $100 that will do an excellent job. The reason for the temperature controlled station, is due to the PC board delaminating if you overheat the tracks and vias. If delamination happens, you risk intermittent operation in the future. Then you have to troubleshoot the problem, and install a wire to repair the intermittent open circuit. With the proper extraction tool, I have removed connectors with over 100 contacts, as well as other components with multiple solder joints. With practice, you develop a feel of when the solder was melted to be extracted by the tool. And once you begin to get the feel for the tool, it gets very easy to use!

Thanks a ton! I managed to replace the broken USB port on a photocopier/MFP at work with this method. Solder sucker was useless. Now people can print again :)

Very Good work - love the method.

Very effettive technique ! Thanks you so much for sharing your Deep knowledge. Regards from Italy.

Brillant, I was just last night trying to remove a slider pot from a kenwood radio that has a LOT of thermal mass, no dice, it was impossible, I will try your method, thank you

Awesome thanks G easiest method I've found ..

Been doing this with connectors for a long time, works well

Nicely done!

Great idea !!! very useful method ! Thanks~~

Awsome trick! Thanks!

Great video. I have never thought of doing this. A good method for model railways which is the focus of my channel, Thanks for uploading.

Great work! Thank's!

Great video ,thanks for sharing.

Thank you, that trick is super useful

Nice method. I've used many different types of component removal as a circuit board repair tech. This method is nice and neat. I fou d that using the lower melting point solders that contain Bismuth. I think it is sold as Chip-quick (s). Cut the solder into tiny "chips". Place the chip along with flux onto the pins with your soldering iron. This allows you to use a much lower temperature to remove the component. Make sure to remove the solder with the solder braid after the part is removed. If you use hot air, you risk the chance of blowing off nearby components. George B

Thank you.. thats an awesome method..

Nice technique!

Great stuff!

Subbed from this video, been soldering since I was about 14 and multi through hole were always a pain, this looks so easy compared to trying to use a pump.

Well done!

WOW. amazing technique! Wish I had 1/10th your soldering skills.

Thx for all the tips

You have a fairly complete set of maintenance tools

Thanks for sharing experience. 💗

Brilliant idea. I've seen a similar method for desoldering SMD SO packages - I just can't remember where or who. Bend a thick copper wire into a rectangle that fits exactly on top of the flat part of the legs.

Very nice method I found it useful

i found my solder sucker very annoying. using your methods is relaxing and fun. i just fixed some headphones. i will try your method to remove an IC next

Thanks. Good work.

The whole thing with wire transferring heat has a great many applications. I can see I'll need to break out my round-nose pliers and practice these techniques on some old scrap boards just to get comfortable with them. (And I'm definitely going to need a bigger tip for my iron.)

Pretty neat and clean! :))) It's like diy copper braid. :) Looks to be gentle on the board too. :) Tnx! :)

Thanks! Brilliant!

Grazie mille per il Tutorial 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Yeah I can see that would help someone who is not a very experienced solderer ..... I don't have a Hakko electric pump gun , but I have 25 years behind the bench .... My Vampire tool aka SS Engineer made in Japan is the best hand pump I've ever used . It will unsolder those harder double side boards... I wouldn't have thought of that idea , Kudos to you Mon Ami...

ABSOLUTE GENIUS. How has this not been done before !?

Thx. Love the vids. You can alternately do this: With braid or desoldering gun, clear all the best you can. There will always be a couple that won't give up, so solder a copper strand to the stubborn ones. Iron to the strand until they give up and let go. Cheers!

Great idea....thanks

Excellent.

that was bloody good

Recently destroyed a board by trying to remove a bad 3PDT switch for replacement. This would have been the right way to do it. Thank you!!!

I enjoy every single video you make (it seems that I've seen almost all of them). Besides your vast knowledge that we all see when using your tools with a steady pulse and extreme precision, can you tell me what do you use to get such crisp image on video😂? (excellently lit btw) I though it was a cellphone but I've seen that you Zoom in/out and it doesn't move at all, its always perfectly on focus, amazing! 😊 Is it a digital microscope? A DSLR camera? Keep on doing this excellent videos, please!

I really like watching you show all these great ways to remove components from boards. They do seem to use a lot of solder. Do you have any recommendations on what solder I should be using fore this? There seem to be endless variations available.

Ive got a Cooler Master HAF-X case with a small PCB on the front header. The USB Ports are physically damaged and the ports need replacing. Will try this method when I get around to doing it.

Great 😃

Great method

Nice!

good work!

I've used that method in the past but once I bought a hot-air station, I'll never go back. But if you can't justify the price of de-soldering equipment, then this is the best way to go. Of course, you need a soldering iron with enough wattage to heat that much solder. Nice video.

I just tried this on a scrap board and it worked amazingly well even done slapdash as an experiment in less than 5 minutes. I'll be getting some thick gauge solid plumbing or stained glass solder to keep on the bench just to make little solder swimming pools since the only downside is it took quite a bit of my usual 0.6mm stuff to fill it up.

After watching all your fabulous videos. I have a challenging project i have been facing. I was wanting to get some advice from a master de-soldering expert. I have a hard drive that i want to replace the power and data connector on. The problem is there are 4 connectors that need to be un-soldered. The connectors are of differing styles and all are mounted to a plastic rail. I have some photos i can send. If you could demo how to do it would make an excellent video. Thanks from a long time viewer.

Good job.

Congratulations 🎉 You have elevated de-soldering to an art form! What make of flux do you use?

This is mind blowing

Amazing 😍

Genius thank you

thank you nice video !!!

So create a solder pot, pretty neat idea

It looked like a right faff, buckets of solder & a high power iron/big bit, but the result is very impressive. Mine have looked like a warzone when I've tried melting each connector & wicking off

Another desoldering pot ! Good job 👍

Nice idea...

Thanks for the tips.