Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tekcrl!tekgvs!keithe 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 References: <1846@uceng.UC.EDU> <11250088@hpldola.HP.COM> Reply-To: keithe@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson) Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR. Lines: 11 >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