desoldering heat sinks?

[banditpaw1]

how do you desoldrr them the just absorb the heat.

[Skyone]

what are you working on that has a heatsink that is secured by solder?

[banditpaw1]

what are you working on that has a heatsink that is secured by solder?

sega genesis model 2. The regulator is attacchad to the heat sink witch is soldered to the bourd how do i ger it off??????

[64M320N3]

Heat it up and pry it off with pliers.
Is it seriously solder? Or are you mistaking it for something else?

[banditpaw1]

Heat it up and pry it off with pliers.
Is it seriously solder? Or are you mistaking it for something else?

i tried plyiers... no dice.its solder alright its grounded too.

[banditpaw1]

well i got pissed and just cut the board around it i didnt hit a single trace i have gotten this board quite small.

[timmeh87]

Use a heat gun or an oven. You have to heat the entire area up. Hairdryer might work if you block the air intake a little. But they have thermal cutoffs set to something relatively low.

[robm]

Go to Radioshack, get a solder sucker bulb. Desoldering bulb. Whatever It's what I use to get soldered heatsinks off, and other parts where an obnoxious amount of solder was used. Or. you can take your dremel and grind the tabs down - it's not like you're going to be using them.

Heat up the solder, suck it off with the bulb. Works like a charm. It's like 5 bucks.

[timmeh87]

I think his problem was at the heating-up stage. His iron i'snt powerful enough