Originally Posted by VirusKiller
Awesome. Added to the wiki: http://www.meridianunplugged.com/wiki/index.php?title=DSP5000

Thanks for the tutorial.

At what age do these tend to fail? Or at what age could they start to fail?

I always cut the part out first. Then heat the lead from the back side and pull it out from the component side with needle nose. Then I use a solder sucker on the component side and heat on the back to clean it.

- Fiddler (IMHO)

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