wick

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You'd clean the pads with solder wick afterwards.

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Quick take

any piece of cord that conveys liquid by capillary action; "the physician put a wick in the wound to drain it"

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noun

any piece of cord that conveys liquid by capillary action; "the physician put a wick in the wound to drain it"

noun

a loosely woven cord (in a candle or oil lamp) that draws fuel by capillary action up into the flame

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for wick.

noun

any piece of cord that conveys liquid by capillary action; "the physician put a wick in the wound to drain it"

noun

a loosely woven cord (in a candle or oil lamp) that draws fuel by capillary action up into the flame

Example sentences

You'd clean the pads with solder wick afterwards.

Take some solder braid and wick the solder from underneath the pins.

Make sure all pins you think are free really are -- go through with wick and suck up the solder under the leads you've lifted.

"Diesel-powered car would be much safer, since oil requires something like a wick in it to burn.

I've done surface mount with a Radioshack soldering iron, solder, and some solder wick.

C'mon now, anyone seriously into electronics --even as a hobby-- ought to own more than a cheap soldering iron, a flux pen, copper wick and a pair of tweezers.

In Japan, all around me are people who try to burn the wick at both ends hoping for a light at the end of the tunnel.. And they most definitely do not resemble the description you just gave of yourself..

They magically match whatever clothes/shoes you're wearing, automatically adjust thickness depending on your feet and shoes, wick moisture better than anything else, and never wear out.

If you read the full article it is explained later on how the filaments of glass are coiled and wrapped in such a way that they fit in the handle and expand when lit by the light pressure causing the filament cords to expand like an inflated wick.

For the repair, I used a simple piece of solder wick to replace the blown trace, stiffened with solder to prevent it from flapping around and possibly shorting to the ground island in the middleNever heard of someone using solder wick in this way before.

They also thought up the grease lampa lump of fat, with a plant wick, placed in a hollow stoneto light their workplace; scaffolds to reach high places; the principles of stencilling and Pointillism; powdered colors, brushes, and stumping cloths; and, more to the point of Picassos insight, the very concept of an image.