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Leads should be dressed to be as short as possible.

Be careful not to create a short to the soldered termination of the cable, which appears to be close to the resistor in your photo.

To fix this you will need a small soldering iron and some solder-wick. I would use a little liquid solder flux to minimize the time you have to apply the soldering iron to the joint to get it to melt, and to assist the wick to remove as much of the old solder as possible. Overheating the joint could damage the resistor and the metal of the printed circuit. Clean off the solidified remaining flux after you are done with the repair: it is resin and not harmful, but looks bad.

Better to have help from someone with experience if you are unsure about this.


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  • Leads should be dressed to be as short as possible. - Al Sekela 15:13:11 02/11/10 (0)

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