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  • You guys heard of a Hot Air Rework Station? They run only about $90. Oh, and who needs goggles - just close your eyes when you smack it! XD

  • a propane torch and vice, strap in a PCB, heat it till the solder is molten, slap it with the handle of a screwdriver, everything comes flying out.

  • A propane torch is even faster. ;)

  • Hot solder on the legs...perhaps an owie ಠ_ಠ

  • Slapping a board against the table and subjecting everything to Zeus knows how many g's? Well that could be a way to torture test the board.

  • A closer look would have been nice...

  • Alligator clip on a rubber band, clip to header, tension, melt joint, repeat.

  • Or you can buy a desoldering pump for 2€ and not have "sodder" everywhere....

  • This is the caveman way!

  • If it's just header pins, then no problem. They are kind of a pain to dig out anyway since you have to keep the whole row heated. Assuming all the 'keeper components' have already been harvested, I don't see a problem slappin' that sucker to get the header pins.

  • soddder

  • ... and all the surface mount components have hairline fractures that will manifest themselves in years to come.

  • That is such a SparkFun way to do things :-D. Desoldering pump thingy??? Nah, lets just smack it. Hey, it worked last time!! :-)

  • @ElectromechanicPyro I tried this method with an I2C accelerometer one time, and it stopped working... When I tried reading acceleration data off the device, the only thing it would return was "seriously, man, what the hell?"

  • @scopeeyevideo You mean like one of the $60+ ones??? If you did, you kinda earnt it! :-P

  • @scopeeyevideo Gyroscopes and Accelerometers do not tolerate hard shocks, the internal structure breaks :-O

  • Nice goggles.

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