I have a hard time with my solder sucker and prefer to use braided solder
wick for ICs. If you lay the wick across several pins at once and quickly
place the iron tip flat against the board, you can take up a great deal of
solder in very little time (which is key to not frying the IC!).
Then again, I'm an amateur, but this has worked well for me on other
projects and I haven't messed up an IC yet.
David.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Bradley [mailto:daveb@...]
> Sent: Friday, July 30, 1999 4:18 PM
> To: motm@onelist.com
> Subject: RE: [motm] --desoldering ic's?
>
>
> From: "Dave Bradley" <daveb@...>
>
> 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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