You kind of missed the point here, which was that it is surprisingly doable using a ghetto-ass blowtorch when the correct tools aren't available, which is count

You kind of missed the point here, which was that it is surprisingly doable using a ghetto-ass blowtorch when the correct tools aren't available, which is counter-intuitive. I would have expected this to go spectacularly wrong and leave a charred PCB, which it most certainly didn't ("When holding the tip of the flame ~15cm away from the PCB, it took over a minute to get the solder to melt and wet the plane.").