[Coco] RGB2VGA Adapter Progress? - Update Please

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Have to agree with this.  Kip shouldn’t have any problems once he gets the desoldering tool.

I’d pull them one at a time with enough heat to melt them out of the plastic strip if I didn’t have 
one of the vacuum tools, and then clean up with braid.

- Ed


> On Jun 11, 2015, at 11:55 AM, Chris Osborn <fozztexx at fozztexx.com> wrote:
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> On Jun 11, 2015, at 8:42 AM, Steven Hirsch <snhirsch at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Kip, you may find it simpler to pull (or break) off the plastic carrier on the existing male headers and yank them one at a time 
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> Not in comparison to a desoldering gun. With a desoldering gun that job will take only a few minutes and the components will just drop out and will not even appear to ever have been used. I have a Hakko 808 vacuum desoldering gun and I use it all the time to take out 40 pin ICs, completely undamaged. In fact when I recently did a Google Hangout where I assembled the MCX-128 board, I accidentally stuck the 40 pin edge connector on the wrong side of the board. Everyone laughed at me, but within just a couple of minutes I had the connector removed and resoldered back on the correct side of the board.
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