[sdiy] Removing ICs without damaging them

[Seb Francis]

You can get a special soldering iron bit that will desolder DIP ICs.  
The one I have will do up to a 16 pin DIP.  It's quite easy as long as 
the pins haven't been bent over before soldering, in which case it's 
necessary to use a normal iron to unbend all the pins 1st.

Seb


Edmund Evenden wrote:
> What would be the best method to remove ICs soldered into a PCB.
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> The reason I ask is that I've got a smashed Roland Jupiter8 voice card that,
> though can no longer be used has lots and lots of rare roland chips.
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> I would like to be able to remove the ICs without damaging them. I have
> tried using one of them sucker type devices, but I can never get the solder
> clean from the IC legs to be able to remove them.
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> Cheers
> Ed
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