I would like to experiment with recycling a circuit board that has numerous op amps that are useful to me. I can do this once, and its boring and time consuming, but ok then it gets old because it wont be the first and last board I will want to recycle.
Its become time consuming, and some of the things I have read are simply not working. For example, a paint heat gun and a bucket, followed by tapping the board when upside down... like 2 little caps came off after the board browned in an area. You're doing it wrong I guess?
Are there any better ways to do this other than time consuming, dirty, and sometimes unsuccessful methods like this or a simple iron and wick, or soldering station heat gun?
I had the idea of using the oven, a board upside down, sustained heat and gravity to see if pieces would slowly shower down. I worry I will cook all the parts.
So help would be appreciated