[remove soldered chips] Cheap & Dirty

[Quinton Fulsom]

Zsolt Homlokos <Zsolt.Homlokos at rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> wrote:
which is the best way to remove soldered chips?
i tried to get rid of most of the solder with a solder-sucker,but the
chip still doesnt move and i  am afraid of breaking  of the pins .
are there any tricks?
thanks
Zsolt


A buddy of mine at a reclamation/surplus store grinned & took me in the back
room when I asked him about this.  I had dozens of boards to rework and
wanting to save the hard to find ICs had inquired about wave soldering.  He
showed me this method which will not damage the IC's etc.
He uses an electric skillet filled about 1/2 inch with the type of fine sand
like in ash trays.  It sits for about 1/2=1 minutes and then you pick it up
turn it over and they literally all just fall off the board with a couple of
shakes.  About $10 bucks and your set!  Coolest thing I'd ever been shown
probably


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