Originally Posted By: tfabris
It's not as simple as heating up the board and then the components fall off.

Sure it is, at least with all of the boards I've ever tried this with.

Older through-hole boards, no, of course not. But modern-ish (empeg era and beyond) SMT boards, yeah the components do just drop off under the blast of a heat gun. A few larger components don't, but those are very few.


Edited by mlord (20/08/2012 23:33)