Initially they were soldered to the circuit board in the manufacturing
process, enduring the thermal rise of wave soldering process, etc. Proper
application of desoldering equiptment will not damage them. The key is
proper, intelligent, & professional use of the equiptment. "Crowbar will
open a door but tends to make the structure unfit for reuse, the key works
more effeciently and allows continual passage". Eh??
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Don't they get fried in the process? How much heat can they take?

I see, I get the picture

I still prefer to remove them without heat though. It's faster that way and
it doesn't matter how many 'legs' they have...