Hide the heat gun, she might try to disassemble you too... Satellite and set top boxes are great sources for those types of chips too as well as good quality electrolytics and other unusual parts... Dish Network boxes have a neat little 27 MHz VCO as well as 2 or 3 other crystals and TONS of local 12 to 5 and 5 to 3V3 regulators... all linear but a nice detached and cabled switcher to power them all. I saw 4 or 5 memory IC's Sram and EEPROM both but not worth the trouble in an apartment to make a heater to "remove" them 'sides at my age just being able to see those ssop and tssop packages for the Sram... is more than I want to do... If I need that kind of storage, I'll buy a rampack. The EEproms are too cheap to really bother with unless it were a BIG holiday, like the week between Christmas and New Years where Nothing gets done well or right. IMO
Bob