"Jeff Liebermann" wrote in message
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On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 14:44:45 +0100, "Ian Field"
wrote:

***Hot air (electric paint stripper) gun and a stiff paintbush - perfect
for
harvesting SMD parts.

Yep, but I don't do it that way. With SMD, the problem is identifying
the parts after they've been removed. I usually just want the active
components anyway.

***One thing I particularly go after is the larger multilayer SMD chip
capacitors, surprisingly large values in surprisingly small package. Also
the larger discrete semiconductors, the TO251/252 fit less veroboard space
than a TO92.