So the general idea is:
- Melt the solder with an iron and whilst it is still in contact, use a solder sucker at 45 degrees to suck. Try to get most out, so you can see the pads and pins, but it’s not vital to get all
- Hold the board vertical and apply the iron to pins whilst leveraging with some curved needle nose tweezers (sharpest you can get) levered under the flaps of the switch.
- Keep holding the iron on alternate pins whilst applying some leavering force. Eventually it will pop out
I found a video of me doing it. The trick is to get really pointy tweezers so they can be pushed under the flaps. Do this AFTER using a solder sucker to suck out most of the solder
I am sure there are better tools/techniques than this but this is using what I had around (the tweezers were in a generic ‘mobile repair kit’ off amazon that had loads of screwdriver pieces. Although I didn’t damage any of the pads, it could easily do so if you put too much pressure on the tweezers.
You can hear the 4 clicks as I desolder the pins. Thinking about it now, I think the clicking sound is coming from those 4 corner clips that hold it in place.
