Some months ago I enquired here as to the best strategy for recovering
a used PL259, but things being what they are / were, I was unable to get
around
to that particular project until this evening, and so I'd like to thank the
person
who suggested the idea of drilling through the solder holes so that the old
braid
could be pulled out but without the need for a soldering iron (which by
redistributing
the solder might have redistributed the problem to more inaccessible
places!)