tips on soldersucking

[Dave Halliday]

>> 2) If it does matter that the part surfives, but you don't give a
>> sexuallintercourse about the PCB,
>> heat the PCB whit a cigarette lighter.

I used to do this when I was homebrewing computer stuff - you could get a
huge board stuffed with TTL chips ( we are talking twenty years ago here )
for $5-$10

Put the board in a vice to hold it upright, take a propane torch on one side
and use some channel-lock pliers adjusted so the jaw is almost as open as
the chip is long.

Work in a garage ( lots of fumes ) but this would heat the solder up so fast
that you could pop the chips off with no heat damage.  The board was ruined
of course but since I was only into using the chips, this worked out well.