Has anybody tried removing a bad laptop DC jack by cutting it in half with a Dremel tool? The idea is to expose the legs individually that are soldered to the motherboard. Supposedly it is very difficult to unsolder all of the joints at the same time that connect the DC jack to the motherboard because the heat from the soldering iron actually transfers to the whole DC jack making it hard to unsolder.


I had a local repair shop guy tell me that he just cuts the DC jack in half horizontally with a circular dremel cutting blade until each leg of the DC jack is exposed. Once the legs are exposed he just unsolders them 1 at a time. I haven't tried this yet but was curious to see if anybody has tried this technique.