Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!rutgers!netsys!vector!chip From: chip@vector.Dallas.TX.US (Chip Rosenthal) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Desoldering Chips Keywords: Desolder w/o destroying board? Message-ID: <683@vector.Dallas.TX.US> Date: 15 Aug 89 01:17:52 GMT References: <1846@uceng.UC.EDU> <360@donk.UUCP> <[1427.2]comp.ibmpc;1@point.UUCP> <15014@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> Reply-To: chip@vector.Dallas.TX.US (Chip Rosenthal) Organization: Dallas Semiconductor Lines: 11 genemans@mac.dartmouth.edu (Jan Genemans) writes: >What if you have a board with an 8086 processor that is soldered on the board. >I want to remove this chip and replace it with a V30. Is there an easy way of >doing this without destroying the board with dykes or a blow torch? That is a *totally* different problem. Save-board/trash-chip is easy vs save-chip/trash-board. Cut all the leads off the chip and desolder them one by one. However, if you have to ask, you probably shouldn't be trying it. -- Chip Rosenthal / chip@vector.Dallas.TX.US / Dallas Semiconductor / 214-450-5337 "I wish you'd put that starvation box down and go to bed" - Albert Collins' Mom