Desoldering became my practice ground. Just like deconstructing a system helps me understand how it works, reversing the soldering process taught me what a solid connection really looks like.

Unsurprisingly, the process starts out with plenty of flux and some hot air to preheat the pads. he then tins the pads with a conventional soldering iron. The penultimate step is to align the ...

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During the soldering process, chemical reactions occur between the base metal and the solder to form intermetallic compounds. These compounds often have different physical and chemical properties that ...

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