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
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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.
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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