How To Remove Solder. This removes the solder from one of the pads and now we're ready to use the other pad. Excess solder filling a hole happens quite often.
If done properly, there is no damage to the board. Turn your soldering iron on and wait for it to get hot (three minutes, more or less). So today I was removing some solder from a PCB that I was playing with, and everything was too small for the solder pump, or solder sucker as it I've seen people use solder wick, and actually used to have some but lost it before I could ever use it.
On some occasions you may have to.
Make sure you repeat the movement until you have covered the entire tip.
On older through-hole PCB's, especially if you are stripping old boards for parts, I find that heating up the pad (holding the board in one hand and the iron in the other) and then giving the board a good hard tap on the workbench gets rid of most. You can use it to remove solder from your component by simply blasting molten solder away. Use the light version for pin bridges.