help! beginner's desoldering error- is this ruined?

RichardO

Joined May 4, 2013
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The way I was taught to remove scrap chips while working in the industry, is to snip/shear the pins off at the chip header - the pins are *MUCH* easier to remove one at a time.
Agreed. Remember: There is one part that is impossible to replace -- the PCB! If you have to destroy something to fix a circuit, it should always be the components _on_ the PCB.
 
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