Re: Re: Need a POKEY Desolder advice

I've gotta put my vote in for the heat gun too!
It works really fast, without the flame risk of the propane torch...
though with some care and practice obviously that does work great too.
Just my opinion...

I use a heat gun kind of like this one, hope this link works, (the Wagner one, $29.95)
http://tinyurl.com/ozxq

and for IC's that I want to save clean, I stand the board up on it's side and hold
it up with something like blocks or my feet,
and use pliers/ic remover tweezers on the ic with my left hand, and on the right
side use the heat gun (I'm right handed)
A good waving action over the whole area to get the board up to temp, and then
a little local heat on each ic and they pull out very nicely
I don't like the idea of giving the IC's a sharp shock while they're hot or have
a large temperature differential between the legs and body, but
that's just me, it may be ok I just don't know either way...

Cheers,

Marc

----- Original Message -----
From: steve@coule.freeserve.co.uk
To: vectorlist@vectorlist.org
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 2:51 AM
Subject: Re: Re: VECTOR: Need a POKEY Desolder advice

A hot air gun works too (paint stripping type) .. as long as you're scrapping the board ... £10 from your local DIY shop!
Disclaimer .. Use in a well ventilated area ... You can burn yourself with one of these etc etc .. Don't use it as a hairdryer when
drunk ..

Message date : Sep 25 2003, 05:43 PM
>From : Paul Swan
To : vectorlist@vectorlist.org
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Subject : Re: VECTOR: Need a POKEY Desolder advice
Hehe,

Yeah that works.

At first I couldn't find a cheap solder pot large enough (no Ebay then),
so I bought one of those small Antex tinning pots, milled out a hole in
the bottom of die cast aluminuim rectangular box and then bolted that to
the top of the pot. I then bought a spare element and wired that inside
to change it from 2 to 3 elements to up the power. Was big enough to pop
out a 68K and took an hour to re-solidify :-)

Worked a treat, but with no means to seal the join over time solder
leaked out from the bottom of the box.

Now, bought a big pot off Ebay to replace it.

Regards,

Paul.

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