Quote Originally Posted by Phantoms001 View Post
Desoldering a chip is very simple. You go to radio shack and get a desolder braid. Hold the braid on the pins with a soldering iron and it sucks up the solder.
I have made soldering braid from the woven tin plated copper wire thats across the screen on a CRT Tv. Just melted some rosen flux into the braid & used it like that.

Last night I relised that a vacuum pump made from a old fridge motor may be used to suck the solder off too. Like the little hand held solder sucker pumps I see sometimes, but industrial.