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Episode 22: Chipping Away at Hardware Hacking

Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast

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How to Use a Hot Air Gun to Heat a Chip

Most of these hot air guns are made cheaply and they do not have the best quality control. So your mileage is going to vary probably greatly from someone else's, so you will just need to do some testing on your own. I would start at a low temp, like start at melting point of solder. So like probably around 200 C and just work your way up. If you're constantly moving your air gun, you're heating the whole area. The thing that you mentioned this, but you didn't really explain it, you need to be constantly moving the air gun around the chip because you need all of the balls of solder underneath the chip to be melted at the same time. Right

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