Re: Need a POKEY Desolder advice

In a message dated 9/28/2003 7:54:09 PM Eastern Standard Time,
Al@alsarcade.com writes:

> As much as I like Art (he's stood up for me in the past), I think he's
> missing the whole point here.
>
> What we have:
> A game cart for a game system we don't have that happens to have a 40 pin
> chip on it that will make LOTS of our games work again.
>
> What we want:
> That chip off the board and usable. The board is going to the garbage tip
> (threw that in for our UK fans).
>
> I'd have to say that if a blow torch will get the chip off the disposable
> board in record time as opposed to trying to desolder

I may have overreacted - probably from an ingrained fear of working on boards
that others have worked on ahead of me with similar scorched earth tactics :)

Art

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Received on Sun Sep 28 19:57:44 2003