How To Desolder Components

Cleaning The Terminals

First thing you need to do after finding the terminals of the component you want to desolder is to clean them with isopropilic alcohol (a.k.a. isopropanol) using a toothbrush. Just wet the toothbrush with isopropilic alcohol and brush the terminals. Do not use regular alcohol.

Figure 6: Wetting the toothbrush with isopropilic alcohol.

Figure 7: Cleaning the component’s terminals with isopropilic alcohol.

Figure 8: Terminals correctly cleaned.