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Quoted from goingincirclez:Get one side of the chip free, then bend and break it off the other side (so much for salvage).
Doing this can actually pull a through hole if there happens to be a cracked solder joint that's half holding a leg and it gets moved around. Just saying. Last big repair I did was replacing the ASIC socket on a WPC board, that was fun. I've never owned a desoldering gun at all, never used braid. Just me and my trusty almost-6-year-old soldapullt...
It really wasn't that bad. I dunno why people haterade on soldapullts so much LOL. If you don't have 300 bucks to drop on a desoldering tool, they're awesome, and mine's lasted through working on 40+ games. I call that a win. There's nothing about replacing an ASIC socket that ISN'T tedious, soldapullt or 808...either way it's still a bunch of holes. 
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