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From: keithe@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Desoldering Chips
Message-ID: <5760@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>
Date: 14 Aug 89 20:10:18 GMT
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Reply-To: keithe@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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>A simpler solution is to destroy the board with a pair of dykes and clean
>the legs off after the fact.  The torch trick sounds a little radical for
>heat sensitive devices (not to mention human breathing apparatus).

We've got soldering iron tips around here that are made to unsolder up to
16-pin DIPS.  It replaces a standard (Weller?) copper tip with a block that
is the size of a 16-pin DIP package and hs little indentations where the
legs stick thru the board.  My guess is that they might be available at
larger electronic supply stores.

kEITHe