Well it's amazingly simple to do. Here is what i pulled off a board in 10mins.
Basically heat the PCB face down (on low power, 300°C) and tap the ICs out, most just fall out.
Brilliant.
Read more here: www.instructables.com and www.robotroom.com
Wednesday 16 March 2011
Heat Gun Desoldering
I've always struggled to de-solder ICs from old PCBs. Then i happened to find a web page describing how to use a paint stripping heat gun to do it.
Well it's amazingly simple to do. Here is what i pulled off a board in 10mins.
Basically heat the PCB face down (on low power, 300°C) and tap the ICs out, most just fall out.
Brilliant.
Read more here: www.instructables.com and www.robotroom.com
Well it's amazingly simple to do. Here is what i pulled off a board in 10mins.
Basically heat the PCB face down (on low power, 300°C) and tap the ICs out, most just fall out.
Brilliant.
Read more here: www.instructables.com and www.robotroom.com
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I just recently discovered it on my own also. A heat gun works amazingly well. I am trying to find a mini heat gun that is a more localized flow of heat though so that only a small section of a circuit board is effected not a broad area like a normal heat gun.
ReplyDeleteHas anyone tried a pizza oven as like a reflow oven? It would need to be a convection pizza oven whereby you could dial in a specific temperature like 180 degrees. Any circuit boards with microscopic hairline fractures could be repaired accordingly. I have done so with a heat gun but you have to be careful due to the broad flow of heat. Oven mitts are a must!!