What type of solder are you using?

What type of soldering iron (and watt output) are you using?

I've never needed to actually clean the board for this operation, but I have used acetone to remove the conformal coating at times, when I needed to do so.

While it is possible to overheat the board, it would take a LOT of heat to do so. I have my soldering station set to just under 400*C, and many times when I'm de-soldering something like this I will turn it up to about 450-ish.

While I usually use a good solder sucker for this, I have found that sometimes solder wick works better.