Attempting first project - Some questions if I may

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Originally Posted by albanks

I'm finding that out now. I will have to pick up something more heavy duty for desoldering. For the normal soldering of the paper caps will a 30 watt soldering iron from Harbor Freight work? I seem to remember reading somewhere 40watt is the normal minimum.

30-40 W will do for most things. Things soldered to the chassis may take more, maybe 60W, but you don't have to remove the metal cased caps anyway most of the time. Also if a component lead is soldered to the chassis you can clip the lead near the old part and splice the new component lead to the old lead, no need for a big iron.