PacManPlus Posted August 14, 2008 Author Share Posted August 14, 2008 BTW, batari's suggestion really helped out - I did 40 of those boards in a few hours, whereas it would have taken me *much* longer with a hand desolderer. Thank you VERY much for that suggestion! I had to get a small piece of sheet metal (like I mentioned earlier) and placed it on top of the 'grill'. I then put the board (chip side down) and watched until the solder points started to bubble. I then picked the board up with a pair of needle-nose pliers, and banged it against the workbench. The ROM usually fell right out, although the solder did have to be scraped off the board (easy). The only 2 cons, are 1) sometimes the capacitor came out as well and that had to be soldered back in (2 points, easy) and 2) the boards take quite a while to cool off after that. Both worth it IMHO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiKOTRON Posted September 16, 2008 Share Posted September 16, 2008 I'm going to try a frying pan. You know, to melt the solder all in one shot. It might work... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Random Terrain Posted September 16, 2008 Share Posted September 16, 2008 A way to do a 'mass' desoldering? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiKOTRON Posted September 16, 2008 Share Posted September 16, 2008 Aaah yes! Molten lava should do the trick! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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