New Capacitor Blew Up — #7

Post #7 by Mike Richardson

Source Forum	68kMLA
Category	Troubleshooting
Post Date	Thu, 28 Aug 2008 - 19:27
Original URL	https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/new-capacitor-blew-up.14554/

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I hate axials!
I only have one cap left and it's the other axial. One side came out fine. The other side kind of broke off and left a tiny little piece of metal in the hole.

No matter what I do I cannot get this to heat up and get the little piece of metal to come out, I hold it on there for a full minute, I tried more heat, I tried either side, etc. It won't budge.

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Are you using a low-power iron? It may be time to crack out the big one. Hang onto the piece with a needle-nose, heat it up on the opposite side of the board, and it should slip right out of there.

It's an adjustable iron so you can go from 5W to 40W. I was running it at 40W and it still wasn't helping. Maybe it's defective and not really going at 40W.