RE: Evolution 58GT gas engine Ignition problem and CH Ignition conversion
Oh yeah, I forgot to include a pic showing the pads on the printed circuit board cleared ready for me to poke the wires through and solder them in again. I always feel anxious doing that as you don't know if the pads will lift up or come apart from the heat from the soldering iron or not. But the printed circiut board is a good quality one with plated through holes too. So it held up well to my cleaning the solder off and clearing out the holes in the pads. I used some solder braid to suck the solder off the pads with the sokdering iron. The large solder glob connecting the corner pad to the ground or common on the case cleared off a lot easier that I thought it would. I used a Weller soldering station with a fat tip for this, and a fine tip when I soldered the wires back in, and then switched to the fat tip when I put the solder back on to connect the corner pad back to the case again.
Now the case is thin sheet metal that was tinned. it is not alumimum. They may have slightly soldered the two covers on. On my unit, one cover was not soldered on and the other cover had one solder spot in the middle where the outer decal cover tape was wrapped around it. You may have to bend the covers a little to find where it is soldered on and if they over do it, you might wind up buggering up the cover a lot to get it off too.