Low-temp desoldering of SMT

You've probably all heard about Chip-Quik--a low-temp soldering alloy used to desolder SMT at about 150C. Today, I took a scrap board and decided to try my own version. Normally, I keep a fair amount of Wood's metal around for bending thinwall brass tube (filling a tube with the stuff keeps it from collapsing while bending). WM melts at about 158F (70C) and I wondered if the considerably cheaper Wood's metal would do the job that Quik-Chip is sold for. It does--I just removed a TSOP28 package using nothing more than a couple of scraps of WM and a 90W PAR38 spotlight to heat the PCB. I moved the WM around the chip leads a bit and then grabbed the chip with a bit of silicone putty on the end of a fingerip. The chip came right up. A little flux might have speeded things up a bit, but I didn't bother with it. Cleanup was easy--shake the excess metal off the board, wipe down the pads. I'd probably clean the pads a bit more if I wanted to resolder a chip there. Thought folks might like to know. WM is marketed under several trade names, such as Cerrobend. Cheers, Chuck