16 Nov
2006
16 Nov
'06
1:36 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
Can't always snip the pins. Generally speaking,
desoldering a chip isn't necessarily catastrophic, but
what if it's old and irreplaceable? And you don't have
access to all that high tech stuph. It just seems to
me that if you flood the chip with cool water, you'll
probably totally eliminate the possibility of smoking
it. Somethings just can't be replaced you know...
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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.