15 Nov
2006
15 Nov
'06
12:22 a.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
In any case, you should be more worried about damaging
the PCB (for
example the through-hole plating) than the chips. 64K DRAMs are not hard
to get, after all. In fact, if I wasn't sure of my abilities to desolder
the ICs, I'd cut the pins off them and then desolder them one at time
from the PCB.
Been there, done that, repaired the resulting mess with blue wire. Not
nice.
A really hot temperature-controlled iron is the way to go. Either that
or as you say, snip the chip and pick the pins out one at a time.
I'm dreading removing the 30-pin thick film module that's wedged tightly
between other thick-film modules in one of my synthesizers.
Gordon.