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old chips are often tempered at 100 deg C for a while to get moisture away. There are heating pads where you desolder them with heat from under the board, that way less stress on the chip itself. Then use the heating plate again for soldering the chips on the new board

another reballing aproach is, to "reball " the chips with a solder stencil like : solderpaste through the stencil on the chip, lift stencil , heat the chip with a heat gun to crate the balls, add a little flux. The board itself is first tinned and then cleaned of the solder and then let a thin...

Hello i am new too , was reading a lot in the past weeks, now i have some questions , so i registered :D

are you still building the own pcb ? i planned to do that too have some time next month and i am looking for a lot of information about it. currently i try to build the package and later route the connections in eagle.