Neelandan shows you how to salvage surface mount components -

“I shall tell you how I rescue components from old circuit boards and store them for reuse. A board from an old (relatively new, that is) hard disk drive shall be shown for an example. The photo (taken using my scanner) shows one such board, after I removed the IDE connector.” - Link.

Related:

• Using SMT components in your electronics projects - Link.
• HOW TO - Make a surface mount soldering iron - Link.
• HOW TO - SMD soldering (Surface mount devices) - Link.
• Surface mount component remover - Link.
• Solder surface mount parts with a toaster oven… - Link.
• Surface mounting with hand-soldering tools - Link.

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