Uday,
        Check out the ERSA IR500 Rework System, it uses dark IR emitters
for even heating of SMT or through-hole parts such as PGAs. Follow this
link: http://www.globalautomation.com/ir500a.htm

Mike McMonagle
PCA Process Engineering Supervisor
K*Tec Electronics
1111 Gillingham Lane
Sugar Land, TX  77478
(281) 243-5639 Phone
(281) 243-5539 Fax
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Uday V. Putcha [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 1999 2:38 PM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      [TN] Reworking of PGAs
> 
> Hello
> 
> We are in a process of developing a method for replacing and reworking
> Pin Grid Arrays (PGAs). Does anybody has any suggestion or looked into
> this problem of removing the PGAs from the board?
> 
> Thanks in Advance
> 
> Uday Putcha
> 
> 
> Uday Putcha 
> Manufacturing Engineer, 
> Qualcomm Incorporated.,
> Direct:(619) 651-6331
> Fax:    (619) 658-1584

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