Re: Ballblazer Carts...

I put the pcb in a vice upside down so the pins are pointing upwards then
heat the pcb with an electric heat gun. The IC just drops out along with
most of the other components!

Phil.
----- Original Message -----
From: "James R. Twine" <jtwine@jrtwine.com>
To: <vectorlist@vectorlist.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 2:54 PM
Subject: RE: VECTOR: Ballblazer Carts...

> Anybody got a solder pot (and 5lbs of solder :) they want to
> give/loan me? It makes pretty short work of desoldering the chips
> 'cause you can dip the pins into it to quickly melt the solder on them
> all at once. Keep a grip on the chip and on the cartridge and pull 'em
> apart...
>
> Another way, although not at neat and a little dangerous, is to try
> to break the PCB right at the centerline of where the pins are. This
> often leaves solder and small parts of the PCB and/or traces attached to
> the chip's pins, but you can then heat up each pin and give it a quick
> bump to knock the stuff off.
>
> (Ahhh... the things you do to get at a chip off a scrap board when
> you are young, poor, and only have a 30 watt soldering iron!)
>
> Peace!
>
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Werner Sharp [mailto:wsharp@twcny.rr.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 9:00 AM
> > To: vectorlist@vectorlist.org
> > Subject: Re: VECTOR: Ballblazer Carts...
> >
> > I bought a case of these years ago and there's one gotcha with these.
> > Desoldering a 40 pin chip is a real pain in the *ss. Maybe
> > I'm just not a
> > good desolderer but getting all 40 pins free takes a while.
> > I still have 50
> > cartridge boards still in a box in the basement with Pokeys attached.
> >
> > If you're all going to get a bulk buy together, it would be
> > nice if one
> > person with a faster way to desolder them like a solder bath
> > could help out.
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Cris Rhea" <crhea@mayo.edu>
> > To: <vectorlist@vectorlist.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 3:00 AM
> > Subject: Re: VECTOR: Ballblazer Carts...
> >
> >
> > > On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 07:48:37PM -0500, Christopher X.
> > Candreva wrote:
> > >> On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Cris Rhea wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > What was the going rate per cart??
> > >>
> > >> $2.
> > >>
> > >> ==========================================================
> > >> Chris Candreva -- chris@westnet.com -- (914) 967-7816
> > >> WestNet Internet Services of Westchester
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> > >
> > > PayPal OK, yada, yada....
> > >
> > > --- Cris
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