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On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 05:01:25PM -0400, Tim E. Real wrote:
> Send it to me! I'll do it!

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> Replacing 100+ pins SM ICs by hand is something we specialized in every day

>  for many years in our repair shop.

> When you can't afford high priced rework stations, you learn to do without.

>

> A Sony technician taught us one method in our arsenal:

> When soldering, just go nuts with soldering all the pins, don't worry about

>  bridges. Then you use solder wick to remove all the bridges. Then

>  do some fine touch-ups with the iron. This method worked quite well in

>  many cases. A fine dental pick or equivalent tool helps, to run in between the

>  pins as you are touching up with the iron.

Good to know !
When I was working at Alcatel there were some ladies in the

electronics workshop specialised in this sort of operations -

replacing SMD components, destroyed by the developers, on

prototype PCBs. They could also solder cables onto 19-pin

Lemo connectors without melting them, and perform other sorts

of miracles. They won my eternal admiration - I get nervous

when I have to solder an XLR-3M. 
Ciao,
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FA
There are three of them, and Alleline.
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