Re: Desoldering surface-mounted components: Advice sought

[shirsch@adelphia.net (Steven N. Hirsch)]

In article <767iok$272u$3@lynx.unm.edu>, stephen e buggie wrote:
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>Has anyone mastered the technique of desoldering surface-mount components?
>I want to desolder/replace an IWM disk-drive chip from a IIgs board.
>

Stephen,

Try vendors that cater to the electronics service industry, such as
MCM Electronics, ORA Electronics and possibly Mouser Electronics.
When I ran a repair business years ago, they offered kits for
replacement of surface-mount chips.  The _real_ way to perform such
work is with an SMD "rework" station, but the cheapest of these run in
the low four-figures.  

Good luck, and I hope you have better eyesight than I do <g>.

Steve