Thanks for the tips. I'll try the heatgun, and continue some of the freezer chilling. By the way, Chris told me that with the sinks on the board, it is midgrade all the way. Remove the heat sinks, and he said it would be $1.50 per pound. That is less than I had hoped for, but in disassembling the units, I discovered each unit has 3 hashboards, so that is a little over 3 pounds per device, so puts the board value up to $4.50 per unit, with a high peripheral board, two pounds of clean extruded aluminum, which will bring another $1 There is a cooling fan on each end, which can be removed by taking out the fou small screws in the mounting steel plate (negligible weight, and a few ounces of insulated copper wire. So the total should be $6 or $7 per unit.
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