RE: VECTOR: Ballblazer Carts...

   Anybody got a solder pot (and 5lbs of solder :) they want to
give/loan me?  It makes pretty short work of desoldering the chips
'cause you can dip the pins into it to quickly melt the solder on them
all at once.  Keep a grip on the chip and on the cartridge and pull 'em
apart...

   Another way, although not at neat and a little dangerous, is to try
to break the PCB right at the centerline of where the pins are.  This
often leaves solder and small parts of the PCB and/or traces attached to
the chip's pins, but you can then heat up each pin and give it a quick
bump to knock the stuff off.

   (Ahhh... the things you do to get at a chip off a scrap board when
you are young, poor, and only have a 30 watt soldering iron!)

   Peace!

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Werner Sharp [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 9:00 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: VECTOR: Ballblazer Carts...
>
> I bought a case of these years ago and there's one gotcha with these.
> Desoldering a 40 pin chip is a real pain in the *ss.  Maybe
> I'm just not a
> good desolderer but getting all 40 pins free takes a while.
> I still have 50
> cartridge boards still in a box in the basement with Pokeys attached.
>
> If you're all going to get a bulk buy together, it would be
> nice if one
> person with a faster way to desolder them like a solder bath
> could help out.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cris Rhea" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 3:00 AM
> Subject: Re: VECTOR: Ballblazer Carts...
>
>
> > On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 07:48:37PM -0500, Christopher X.
> Candreva wrote:
> >> On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Cris Rhea wrote:
> >>
> >> > What was the going rate per cart??
> >>
> >> $2.
> >>
> >> ==========================================================
> >> Chris Candreva  -- [email protected] -- (914) 967-7816
> >> WestNet Internet Services of Westchester
> >> http://www.westnet.com/
> >>
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> > You can count me in for 10-15.
> >
> > PayPal OK, yada, yada....
> >
> > --- Cris
> >
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