zachtheterrible
Active Member
If you're like me, you have a box or boxes of old circuitboards just laying around, taking up space. You justify it with "im sure ill use something from those 20 circuitboards someday". But you don't, you keep adding to the pile because whenever you see a thrown out radio, TV, etc you just cant help yourself. Of course desoldering all the components on the board would allow you to trash the boards, but it would take ALL day.
Ive come up with a very simple solution. Propane torch. Just point it at the back of the board wherever your component is, and yank it out :lol: . You can even remove transformers, and multi-pin components with ease because you can direct the flame on a ton of different connections at once.
Another solution I was thinking of would be to put the bottom part of the board in water, and heat the water to solder melting point (i forget what it is). This would be even easier, as you could literally just pluck as many components off the baord as you could get your hand over.
Using the torch solution, I have just dismembered about 5 boards in a half hour.
Ive come up with a very simple solution. Propane torch. Just point it at the back of the board wherever your component is, and yank it out :lol: . You can even remove transformers, and multi-pin components with ease because you can direct the flame on a ton of different connections at once.
Another solution I was thinking of would be to put the bottom part of the board in water, and heat the water to solder melting point (i forget what it is). This would be even easier, as you could literally just pluck as many components off the baord as you could get your hand over.
Using the torch solution, I have just dismembered about 5 boards in a half hour.