First post, by jesolo
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I'm looking for some advice as I'm very new to the world of soldering and de-soldering.
Attached is a picture of a 386/486 combo motherboard.
As can be seen from the picture, although there is a place for the 386 CPU, it's missing the 386 PGA socket.
Suppose I do have an old 386 (non functional) motherboard and I wanted to solder that PGA socket onto this motherboard, what does one have to do?
I presume that to de-solder the socket from the old motherboard is a case of just using a de-soldering iron and "unplugging" it?
However, how does one go about in "opening" up the soldering points where the socket must fit into this motherboard?
Once I can open up the holes, then it should be straight forward to just solder each contact point?