[MrElectronicman]

I have had some success with mid 60's PCB's, certainly easier than trying to remove resistors and capacitors from a valve pin buried under other things.

Now SMD's on PCB's are something else, I recently tried to remove a micro USB connector, and utterly failed, I can't even see where the pins are connected to the PCB traces since some of them were though-hole to the other side of the board.

So in some ways the hard-wired stuff was more fun, that is until you broke a tag trying to unwrap a couple of resistors that were wrapped around the tag one and a half times per GPO requirements