Removing surface-mounted ICs

Get a old heavy alumium baking pan and start cooking on electric or gas. Heat on high starting with piece of solder wire dabbling the pan till solder melts and balls up then turn low bit towards medium. Wait for few minutes, then tap the chips you want to take till it is free and pick them up with tweezers or needle long nose pliers. I often find the melting point of solder is hot enough even on low on any stoves. Warning: It will smell if heat is too high. For those dual SOJ or gull wing (not the quad SOJ/gullwing kind), I take two 40W solder irons (grounded) and melt excessive solder acts as heat capacity to keep solder molten and keep moving both solder together. Till chip is loose then pinch the chip with the solder iron tips quickly lift up and let it drop on the metal or cardboard. Clean leads up with fresh blob of solder dragged across them by holding the chip vertical using gravity and surface torison do the work. I do that same for installing all SOJ and gull wing pitch of .025 by tacking two leads down to hold it in place and solder excessively then drag the blob, solder will want to leave the leads and try to run off at the last pin but you can prevent it when moving the solder tip carefully. All cooking of any types are hot enough, over 500F on high without water load. Heated metals that are glowing red and orange ia over 1000F and bit more. Because of this glow the water has very high specific heat capacity and that takes so much heat to bring it to boil quickly and keep it there. Oh yes can melt cheap aluminum spun thin pots with a stove. I had this happen few times. Without warning too. Look at burned buses and airplaces, aluminum melted because fire is hot enough. Wizard