Quote Originally Posted by BRASSCATCHER View Post
Kiwi- i do not believe that you have to grind the legs off of them.
For the ones soldered on take a wood chisel and pop them right off. For the ones that are in a socket use a flathead screwdriver and pry them out.
Oh wups, I was thinking of the lower grade chips, since it was a lower grade board. The sort that has the legs going completely thru the board.
I have been breaking up the TV boards & removing the chips that way & 1/2 the time the board breaks off across the holes & leaves the bit of board under the chip still soldered to the board.
(& I get the SAW devices as well)



I intend to process the chips myself so I need all of the legs removed.

The 'flatpacks' I just use a boxcutter knife & cut thru all the legs on two sides of all of the chips, then I turn the board 90 deg & cut thru the other two sides of legs & the chip falls off.

I brought a pack of cheap wooden handled craft knifes for NZ$5 & they work better than the boxcutter, the boxcutter gets caught sometimes & also needs to be snapped so I get a new sharp blade edge.