I had hundreds of memory boards from some mainframe and stripped off kilos of chips.
Back in the day of 41256 RAM chips almost every one had a set of pulls from myself. Kept me in University ...Cheers guys John A --- On Wed, 9/5/12, Tony Firshman <t...@firshman.co.uk> wrote: From: Tony Firshman <t...@firshman.co.uk> Subject: [Ql-Users] Blowtorches To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Date: Wednesday, 9 May, 2012, 14:09 I see from the current issue of Quanta that a joky "quote of the show" referring to Lee's removal of components from pcbs using a blow torch. This is not a joke. I too used a purpose built 2kw hot air gun to selectively remove components from QL pcbs. This I suspect is similar to the 'blow torch' Lee used - nothing like the gas powered paint strippers one no doubt imagines. After much practise I managed to remove a whole dodgy std 68008 socket on its own. A quick re-blast on the pads and the new turned pin socket popped in without soldering. It was not possible to detect that it was not the original soldering. I must have removed thousands of components in this way, including the uhf modulator. Tony -- t...@firshman.co.uk http://firshman.co.uk Voice: +44(0)1442-828254 Fax: +44(0)1442-828255 Skype: tonyfirshman TF Services, 29 Longfield Road, TRING, Herts, HP23 4DG _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
