What ever you do to get the pins off once you have removed the chip, don't do this...
It may look easy to just hold the chip vertical on its edge, then use a boxcutter knife to cut the pins off one edge, then turn it around 90deg& do the next edge.
Whats going to happen, after a few edges the knife will get blunter, it'll take a bit more energy to cut the pins, then you have to wiggle the knife a little so it cuts thru the first few pins & then it cuts down thru the rest of the pins.
After a few more, it'll grab one of the pins instead of cutting thru it, because you use more force, it'll rotate the chip 90deg.
That'll pull your fingers around the chip (to your right hand side) a bit.
Then with that amount of force, it'll slide down & slice the end off your finger & thumb.
I use a box cutter to remove the chips, I put the board down flat & for every chip I slice one side of pins off the shortest edges (both sides)
Then I turn the board 90deg & scrape a slice down one edge, I don't cut right thru it, just enough that I might cut thru a few pins but scrape all of that edge. ( I do it that way so theres something still attaching the chip to the board when I do the next cut, and it weakens that edge of the chip)
I then turn the board 180deg & then slice thru the pins on their right edge. Sometimes the chip comes off. Most of the time they stay there sqewed around a bit.
Then I go thru & lift the chips 90deg to the board with a screwdriver, still stuck on by the weakened pins.
Then I go thru with pliers or by hand & rip the chips off.
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