[sdiy] mis-soldered IC....

[Hallvard Tangeraas]

At 22:41 -0600 03-07-02, Tom FitzGibbon wrote:

>i am working on a paia 9700 kit and I soldered in an IC backwards.
>Argh!..... is there anything i can do
>to remove it, i havnt been able to heat up all the pins at once. is there
>any chance of saving the chip?

Sure! But as with anything else you need to have the right tools.
I use a "solder sucker" (not sure if that's the right name) -a spring
loaded "pump" which you apply over the heated IC leg, and when the solder
is melted you press the spring-button and the melted solder is sucked away!

Repeat this until all the solder from each leg is removed, and you should
be able to remove the IC and solder it in the right way (I prefer using IC
sockets most of the time, even though this costs a little extra).



Hallvard
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