[remove soldered chips] Cheap & Dirty

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Y-ellow Merlin 'n' y'all.

At 02:12 PM 05/26/99 +1000, Merlin Zener wrote:
>Michael wrote:

>I remember someone mentioned once an idea where you got a
>piece of wire the same length as the number of pins on one
>side of the IC and connected it to a scope transformer to heat
>it up - you can use a spring loaded IC puller and heat up one
>side, then the other - a few times each side and it's out.
>
>Anyone done this?

Not exactly. I'd suspect you'd use ni-chrome wire. Someone else on here
might be able to fill in the blanks but Ni-Chrome wire has a certain
resistance per metre. You can make a wire wound resistor out of it or you
can make a heating element. They use this in polystyrene wire cutters. run
a few electrons across it and it get's hot enough to melt polystyrene foam.

I would assume it's the same principal. I might try this some day. I've got
a roll of Ni-chrome wire out in the shed somewhere I think?

Be absolutely Icebox.

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