Desoldering surface-mounted components: Advice sought

[buggie@ben16.unm.edu (stephen e buggie)]

Has anyone mastered the technique of desoldering surface-mount components?
I want to desolder/replace an IWM disk-drive chip from a IIgs board.

Thanks to Hank Levinson's expert tutoring, I now routinely replace RAM
chips soldered to boards ---- using sockets in the replacement. But the
IIe/IIc rams are DIP-packages mounted traditionally in holes.

I've subscribed to SURFACE MOUNT TECHNOLOGY magazine for the past year,
but there is a total lack of advice on manual removal or replacement of
SMT components.  The magazine is for original manufacturers only.

HELP REQUESTED!  Even trial-and-error attempts can be reported so that I
won't make the same errors......    Thanks,	Steve Buggie



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