I hope you don't mind my butting in . . . can't help it.
Have someone else describe how to do it with chip-quick, that and a heat gun might get it off 1-2-3 . . . dunno . . .
I'd desoldered every connection with a piston type Desoldering Iron. The connector just wouldn't budge overall, too many pins were still hanging up.
I started munching at it from the ends with the jaws of the nippers parallel to the pins, no upward pressure to speak of, just crushed the plastic housing with pressure from the sides. The pins were in shear, pulling them sideways for the most part, not under tension, pulling them straight up from the board wold have likely proved problematic at the PCB level.
Several pins stubbornly refused to let go, so I desoldered each individually after I was finished munching the connector to smithereens.
No damage to the board at all, no matter how scary that first picture looks.
The less connectors involved the better, I think it's capacitance that's the problem when too many connections are involved. One of the electron pushers needs to chime in here, IIRC, I read about it in PC Magazine MANY moons ago.
Have someone else describe how to do it with chip-quick, that and a heat gun might get it off 1-2-3 . . . dunno . . .
I'd desoldered every connection with a piston type Desoldering Iron. The connector just wouldn't budge overall, too many pins were still hanging up.
I started munching at it from the ends with the jaws of the nippers parallel to the pins, no upward pressure to speak of, just crushed the plastic housing with pressure from the sides. The pins were in shear, pulling them sideways for the most part, not under tension, pulling them straight up from the board wold have likely proved problematic at the PCB level.
Several pins stubbornly refused to let go, so I desoldered each individually after I was finished munching the connector to smithereens.
No damage to the board at all, no matter how scary that first picture looks.
The less connectors involved the better, I think it's capacitance that's the problem when too many connections are involved. One of the electron pushers needs to chime in here, IIRC, I read about it in PC Magazine MANY moons ago.