On 5/16/26 09:39, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > Hi All, > > You have to use a hot air soldering station for this kind of work. While > it's possible to use the old school method of heating up a massive chunk of > copper with a propane torch then touching the board with it, there's no > temperature control with that. > > A soldering iron tip even the most modern rework irons do not have enough > mass, the moment it touches the board the heat is wicked away. > > Fortunately these are cheap nowadays. But as with all soldering/desoldering, > skill and practice is required. Fortunately there's no shortage of scrap > electronics out there to practice on. > > Ted > >
I was starting to think it was a thermal mass issue. I have extensive experience repairing/soldering a wide variety of electronics, including $million Mass Spectrometers, but never a PCB as hefty as a GPU. I do have some ancient PCBs to p I do have a nice heat gun, so I'll just need to set up a bracket/clamp system. -Ed
