[sdiy] mis-soldered IC....

[Sowa Roman]

Hi Tom, Tony and all,

I've pushed this technique to the extreme. Instead of soldering
one solder point at a time (too much time for lazy bastard like me)
I heat up PCB using gas oven and properly shaped flame, then slam
the board against the water sink. Sometimes ICs pop up by themselves
not needing any extra pliers work. :)

Disclaimer - don't do this at home unless you're now what you're doing.
Gas, flames, and burning glass epoxy products might kill you

but seriously, I have no problem with desoldering 2-sided hole plated
PCBs using either solder sucker, or better yet - sucking iron,
that's a kind of soldering iron that has a hole in the tip and sucks.
A little practice can lead to good results

Somehow I feel this post is kinda nasty ;)

Roman

__-----Original Message-----
__From: Tony Clark [mailto:clark at andrews.edu]
__Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2002 5:45 AM
__To: Tom FitzGibbon
__Cc: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
__Subject: Re: [sdiy] mis-soldered IC....

__   First, have a surface that is relatively tough and you don't mind 
__getting hot solder on.
__   Second, hold the board in one hand and soldering iron in the other.
__   Next, heat one lead up until the solder joint has some 
__good thermal 
__energy stored in it (no more than three seconds!)...
__   Then quickly slam the board down against the corner of your work 
__surface (solder side down).  If done right, the hot solder should be 
__expelled from the thruhole connection.


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