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Shipment slightly delayed...so I decided to desolder some surface mount ICs (20-pin SOT).

These used to take me ~45 mins each, so I figured I'd get half of them done before the delivery showed up.

I just did all 4 in under an hour. I'm *definitely* getting better at this. Only lifted one pad, and it's NC, so who cares.

My tools: handheld hot air/desoldering gun, stainless steel wire, tweezers. Clean-up: desoldering copper braid, flux pen, cotton bud, isopropyl alcohol.

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