On 10 May 2012, at 19:32, Bryan Horstmann <b...@newlan.org> wrote:
>
>
> On 09/05/2012 10:07, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
>> Norman Dunbar wrote:
>>> My image when I hear the word "blowtorch" is of my dad filling his with
>>> paraffin and pumping it for what seemed ages to get some pressure up and
>>> then a huge blue flame!
>> That was my reaction when I heard Lee make the remark at the Quanta Workshop
>> in Manchester. Actually, the notion of "whacking" the board against
>> something to make the chips/sockets fall out after heating was what tickled
>> me most!
>>
>> I have managed to fry a few components using just a soldering iron over the
>> years, never mind a blowtorch :-)
>>
>> Dilwyn Jones
>
> At work we had multiple de-soldering tools which fitted on a soldering iron
> and had holes linked to a suction machine; the tool was applied and it left
> it solder-free to then just pull out (usually). In the lab (and at home) it
> was common to work pin by pin melting the solder and then knocking sharply
> when most of the solder would come out; it was practically as good as a
> suction de-solderer and one didn't have to re-load it.
>
No good for sockets and other non-chip components of course.
Tony
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