The hot air gun works ok.? YOu can cut the IC off and remove one pin a a time.? There are some soldering iron tips that are made to heat all the pins at one time.
Ralph ku4pt
On Tuesday, March 25, 2025 at 08:13:42 AM EDT, Craig W8CS via groups.io <craig_severson@...> wrote:
I finally received my replacement IC1001 for the PBT board of my TR-7. (Took about a month, must have come from Asia)
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It's been a while since I've unsoldered/replaced a DIP IC like this. When I used to be a bench tech we'd use a combination of solder wick and solder suckers. Never easy to coax all 14 pins to release and it was pretty easy to damage something if you weren't patient.?
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Is there a better way? Do better tools exist to simplify this task today? thx
