At a minimum, you've got to have a manual solder sucker. It's a hand held
plunger-loaded doodad that creates a vacuum when you release the plunger,
sucking up solder that you have just reheated with your soldering gun. It
works OK for ICs without a large number of pins.
If its a cheapie opamp, sometimes I just clip the pins on the top edge and
remove them individually. It's harder to fix a board that you have lifted
pads or traces on, than it is to replace an inexpensive IC.
Dave Bradley
Principal Software Engineer
Engineering Animation, Inc.
daveb@... > -----Original Message-----
> From: hodad1@... [mailto:hodad1@...]
> Sent: Friday, July 30, 1999 3:34 PM
> To: motm@onelist.com
> Subject: Re: [motm] --desoldering ic's?
>
>
> From: hodad1@...
>
>
> It hasn't happened to me yet, but it probably will eventually--if I solder
> an ic in backwards
> or blow one up, is there a recommended technique for getting those little
> suckers out?
> --Short of a desoldering station, that is.
>
> tomr
>
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