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Originally Posted by SiriusHardware
When you are reasonably sure an IC is dead we always recommend snipping all the pins off it high up next to the body of the IC, removing the body and then desoldering and removing each pin individually, as it is much easier to remove a one-pin device without causing damage than it is to remove a 20-pin device.
Of course this doesn't apply if you want to be able to swap between the new device and the older, possibly faulty device to observe the difference in their behaviour. If you do, then you have to get it out the hard way, intact.
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Yes the good old cut out, I did have one of those Weller desoldering stations with the foot switch to activate the vac pump.