Heat gun

[silversaddle1]

What temp does a heat gun have to reach to melt the solder that holds soldered on CPU's, etc.?

 

[lazersteve]

370F or 188C

Steve

 

[kalay]

Depends on the solder.Just typing "solder melting point" in my browser I came up with almost half a million hits.Wikipedia says 190-840 F

 

[goldsilverpro]

Steve is talking about 60/40 tin/lead, which was the standard solder used on PCBs for many, many years. Unless the boards are fairly new, I imagine that's what the solder is composed of.

 

[silversaddle1]

Great!! Bought a real nice heavy duty gun at an auction tonight, 500 degrees it says. Works great, hot as hell, $3.00!

 

[glorycloud]

And for the rest of us, the $2.00 hair dryer from Goodwill works
just fine as well on getting most chips to release from a board. 8)

 

[silversaddle1]

And for the rest of us, the $2.00 hair dryer from Goodwill works
just fine as well on getting most chips to release from a board. 8)

You mean I could have saved my 3 dollars and just used the 'ole ladys hair dryer? :mrgreen:

 

[Barren Realms 007]

And for the rest of us, the $2.00 hair dryer from Goodwill works
just fine as well on getting most chips to release from a board. 8)

You mean I could have saved my 3 dollars and just used the 'ole ladys hair dryer? :mrgreen:

Not if you value your life. 8)