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i tried de-soldering the eeprom using a cheap non temperature controlled soldering iron and lifting it from the board... it was covered in blue glue to keep it stuck to the board, i havent managed to get an eeprom dump using the clip on jobbie yet... even off the vectra's ipc which didnt have any blue glue over the chips.
But in the process in the process i overheated a pcb track... i managed to fix that... but stupidly took the eeprom off the pcb a second time to fit a socket on wires, even tho i used hot air to get the eeprom off, i used the soldering iron (my temp controlled one this time.. as i had to get it out of storage) but i lost another track in the process.
I have new soldering tools to hopefully ensure i don't screw up again when i get another IPC,
Got the hot air rework station... and some kapton tape (to put around surface mount led's to stop them burning when de-soldering with hot air)
My temperature controlled solder / de-solder station (vacuum desolder gun, for through hole stuff only)
and some hot chopsticks.. tweezer like double soldering irons for taking led's and similar parts off the board, they work brilliantly for removing most led's... except the side mount ones.. still not 100% decided if to use the kapton tape and hot air, or a wide tip on the soldering iron for them.
But in the process in the process i overheated a pcb track... i managed to fix that... but stupidly took the eeprom off the pcb a second time to fit a socket on wires, even tho i used hot air to get the eeprom off, i used the soldering iron (my temp controlled one this time.. as i had to get it out of storage) but i lost another track in the process.
I have new soldering tools to hopefully ensure i don't screw up again when i get another IPC,
Got the hot air rework station... and some kapton tape (to put around surface mount led's to stop them burning when de-soldering with hot air)
My temperature controlled solder / de-solder station (vacuum desolder gun, for through hole stuff only)
and some hot chopsticks.. tweezer like double soldering irons for taking led's and similar parts off the board, they work brilliantly for removing most led's... except the side mount ones.. still not 100% decided if to use the kapton tape and hot air, or a wide tip on the soldering iron for them.