{"id":1367,"date":"2014-01-19T09:05:05","date_gmt":"2014-01-19T14:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/?p=1367"},"modified":"2014-01-25T09:06:35","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T14:06:35","slug":"salvaging-electronic-components","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/salvaging-electronic-components\/","title":{"rendered":"Salvaging Electronic Components"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For years I&#8217;ve been salvaging electronics components from discarded and broken devices. It&#8217;s not as hard as you might think. All you really need is a soldering iron, some solder wick and a bit of patience. <\/p>\n<p>Solder wick is just braided copper wire with a bit of flux on it. You place the strand of wick on the solder, heat it up with the soldering iron and the molten solder will &#8220;wick&#8221; onto the copper. When you lift it the solder comes with it and you can then remove the component. <\/p>\n<p>In this week&#8217;s video I&#8217;ll demonstrate this and other ways to remove components from circuit boards.<\/p>\n<p>Keep on hackin&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K-2ojZNsz4U\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years I&#8217;ve been salvaging electronics components from discarded and broken devices. It&#8217;s not as hard as you might think. All you really need is a soldering iron, some solder wick and a bit of patience. Solder wick is just &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/salvaging-electronic-components\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hacks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1368,"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367\/revisions\/1368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}