"kony" wrote in message
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On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 20:22:58 -0400, "George" wrote:



It would take some fairly high-precision cutters to cut leads on most
modern audio chips, might be as expensive as a another motherboard,
especially considering it's (the board's) age. Do you know of a good
source for affordable micro-tools?


I've used both Sandvik and Excel with good results on ICs including
fine pitch J-lead. Right now it is fortunate that most ICs aren't BGAs...
you're up the creek there without a hot air rework station.