Circuit boards

[ECMnut at aol.com]

Tom,
I think you may have answered this before, but now that you have
socketed these chips, can you remove them for programming,
just like eproms?
Thx, Mike V

> 	I socketed the flash chips on my 95 Camaro LT1 PCM. It had a clear
>  waterproofing all over the board. This seemed to also be under the chips. I
>  built a copper foil damn around the Flash chips, then used a heat gun to 
> remove
>  the surface mount Flash chips, The heat from the heat gun melted the 
solder 
> and
>  softened all the goo up so I could pull off the chips. I then cleaned up 
the
>  area with repeated cleaning with alcohol. Alcohol did not really disolve 
it ,
> 
>  but with scrubbing it cleaned the board up enough to allow me to solder on 
> the
>  sockets.