MOTM

I'll second that solder wick recommendation but be warned ---> NOT ALL 
SOLDER WICKS ARE CREATED EQUAL !

I have a roll of wick that doesn't work at all, period, and then I have 
some stuff that works better than any solder sucker I've used.  This wick 
has some sort of solvent in it that heats up and is consumed to make the 
job go quicker.  I know this because you can smell it as it heats and once 
its gone on the length that's heated, it ceases to work and you gotta trim 
it off.

I used some last night (not in front of me now) but I remember it said 
something like "no-clean solder wick" or something like that.

IMHO, I would desolder only one pin at a time giving plenty of time for the 
component and board to cool down between pins.  If you try to heat many 
pins at once, you'll need much more heat than for one pin risking damaging 
the board and/or the part.  That's *my* theory anyway.

John Speth
Object Engineering, Inc
mailto:johns@...

On Friday, July 30, 1999 1:27 PM, David Bivins [SMTP:david@...] 
wrote:
> From: "David Bivins" <david@...>
>
> 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!).