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Step 5Desoldering the old slider
Time to get busy with the soldering iron! It's a great help to have a "helping hand" here, either a friend or and artificial one :-)
Use desoldering wick on the top and bottom four solder points on the PCB. If this is a factory installed slider it's possible that the legs going through the PCB are twisted to hold the slider in place. Untwist these carfully with a pair of crocodile pliers to be able to remove the slider later on.
When all the solder is removed from the eight legs, turn the PCB over. Remove the phillips head screws from the top and the bottom of the slider. Also remove the one beside the LED (don't let the little washer that is placed between the epoxy board and the metal get lost). Now you have two options, either you desolder the LED to be able to get the metal out of the way. I think this is too much work so another option is to slide the pitch to the top of the slider and carefully lift the metal off the slider. Be careful, you will probably bend the LED a little but it should be OK.
If you were really lucky with the desoldering wick you can now remove the pitch slider from the PCB. But if you're like me you probably can't. Grab the slider with your fingers and turn the PCB over. Try to push your fingers, carefully, between the PCB and the slider while heating the legs one at a time with the soldering iron. If it's not working, make sure you actually untwisted all of the legs!
By now the slider and the PCB should be separate entities :-)
Use desoldering wick on the top and bottom four solder points on the PCB. If this is a factory installed slider it's possible that the legs going through the PCB are twisted to hold the slider in place. Untwist these carfully with a pair of crocodile pliers to be able to remove the slider later on.
When all the solder is removed from the eight legs, turn the PCB over. Remove the phillips head screws from the top and the bottom of the slider. Also remove the one beside the LED (don't let the little washer that is placed between the epoxy board and the metal get lost). Now you have two options, either you desolder the LED to be able to get the metal out of the way. I think this is too much work so another option is to slide the pitch to the top of the slider and carefully lift the metal off the slider. Be careful, you will probably bend the LED a little but it should be OK.
If you were really lucky with the desoldering wick you can now remove the pitch slider from the PCB. But if you're like me you probably can't. Grab the slider with your fingers and turn the PCB over. Try to push your fingers, carefully, between the PCB and the slider while heating the legs one at a time with the soldering iron. If it's not working, make sure you actually untwisted all of the legs!
By now the slider and the PCB should be separate entities :-)
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