Zenith Sentry 2 TV broken

My favorite cheap way is the desoldering iron Radio Shack sells for about 10 bucks, it's one of the few useful things you can still buy there.

get some old tv coax 75ohm cable, cut off the outer plastic insulation, (carefully, so you dont cut the copper braiding), then gently peel back the copper braiding exposing the plastic centre with 1 central wire. cut this plastic off leaving the braiding clear. apply this to your heated solder joints when uysing your iron and it should absorb the solder. coating it in fluxite (solder paste) helps.

-b.

That's the vertical IC. You don't need to remove the old solder. It sounds like you may cause more harm than good by trying. You only need to remove the old solder in cases of extreme heat damage which crystallizes the old solder. In this case just applying a little new solder will work fine. Andy Cuffe

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