Re: Desoldering question

Robert Roland wrote:

> stubblef@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
>
> >You must be careful not to over
> >heat the pin... you know where it goes and the over heating of the
> >connector wires from the pin to the chip element is a very bad
> >thing.
>
> While you are completely right, it is normally not very critical. When
> the board was assembled, the entire component was probably immersed in
> molten solder for a couple of seconds.

Try desoldering it in a couple of seconds and see how many tracks lift,
PTHs break etc etc.

Graham