You´ve gotta be kidding!... or something really important did not come
through to me.
"Solder thieves" as I know them are a design feature just for that purpose
you want them. They usually consist of some kind of solderpad at the end of
a row of contacts that´s not connected to any circuitry with the task of
taking excessive solder. They are a build-in feature of your PCB and not to
be removed after soldering. Double the size/length of the last pad/THT
should be a good size for a solder thieve.

But something to add and respectively remove just for the soldering process
is absolutely new to me.  

Very curiuos

Wolfgang


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Seyfi Ozsever [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 4:28 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [TN] Solder Thieves
> 
> 
> I am looking for some information in the market about "SOLDER THIEVES"
> that can be temporarily applied on the PCB's (i.e, can be 
> removed after
> soldering) to prevent chronical solder bridge problems  during wave
> soldering.  Some through hole components and/or component leads are
> notorious for having the tendency of getting solder bridges at certain
> spots regardless of the adjustments in the process parameters.
> 
> I would appreciate any suggestion or advise in this area.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Seyfi Ozsever
> 
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