A good real terminal

[Tony Duell]

> That is an excellent technique, and I don't recall having real problems
> lifting the pin from the Vcc or GND holes (signal pins are easy) - I
> recall having problems getting the power through-holes clean enough to
> install a socket.
> 
> I think I had to resort to heating one side of the board and sucking the
> solder from the other side - much easier with the board in a vise.

Isn't that how you're supposed to do it? It's certainly how I clean out 
PCB holes if I need to add extra chips to a wave-soldered board (the most 
recent example being upgrading my 512K HP Integral memory PCB to 1M). 

-tony