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<blockquote data-quote="Sumez" data-source="post: 52484" data-attributes="member: 1547"><p>As long as you don't heat the soldering iron more than you need to, and don't hold the iron to the solder longer than you need to, you shouldn't risk damaging anything.</p><p>And either way, you're not likely to damage anything that isn't close to the iron, so as long as you aren't soldering directly to a PCB, I wouldn't worry. In a worst case scenario, you could damage the microswitch, which hasn't ever happened to me, and I've been soldering tons of arcade buttons over the years. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>Also, before you take out your solder iron, maybe all you need to do is really just unscrewing the switches and switching them, if they are the same type?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sumez, post: 52484, member: 1547"] As long as you don't heat the soldering iron more than you need to, and don't hold the iron to the solder longer than you need to, you shouldn't risk damaging anything. And either way, you're not likely to damage anything that isn't close to the iron, so as long as you aren't soldering directly to a PCB, I wouldn't worry. In a worst case scenario, you could damage the microswitch, which hasn't ever happened to me, and I've been soldering tons of arcade buttons over the years. :) Also, before you take out your solder iron, maybe all you need to do is really just unscrewing the switches and switching them, if they are the same type? [/QUOTE]
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