Re: Desoldering valuable ICs friom junked boards

[Liam Busey <liam1@ix.netcom.com>]

stephen e buggie wrote:
> 
> One of Appledom's modest but highly skilled "solder slingers" visited me
> last weekend, and taught me advanced desoldering techniques.  I can now
> desolder chips without damaging them.
> 
> Anyone out there dig around for scrapped motherboards?  Valuable Apple II
> chips sometimes appear on junked boards:
> 
> 85C816    in Super Nintendo and also in some junked cash registers
> 
> 65C02     in various coputer motherboards, IIc Unidisk 3.5 drive analog
> board
> 
> Cut out the relevant portion of the board, send it to me, and I will
> desolder the IC.  Cost:  1/3 of the total number of chips.
> 
> Steve Buggie
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> .

Can you desolder surface mounted chips?

Liam Busey