I think Tony will agree with me, if not I'll hear about it. If you want to
save the board and don't care about the ( dead ) DIP ICs you are removing,
You'll get no arguements from me there!.
cut all the legs off of the DIPs and remove them
one-by-one with minimal
heat and long-nosed pliers. Also don't use solder wick but rather poke a
round wooden toothpick in the hole to clean it out. This will cause the
Applying a soldering iron to one side to melt the solder and suching it
out with a solder sucker from the other side is also relatively 'kind' to
the PCB.
least amount of damage to the board and I haven't
lost a via yet with this
method. Good luck.
I susepct, alas, that some older HP boards may be damaged even my this
method. They really are fragile now.
-tony