Yep, that looks like a lot more fun than the needle-nose-pliers-and-swearing method I usually use when the pins are really bent up.
Torben
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Yep, that looks like a lot more fun than the needle-nose-pliers-and-swearing method I usually use when the pins are really bent up.
Torben
Last edited by Torben; 20th August 2008 at 01:50 AM.
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Use this tool in combination with an IC-inserter. That way you won't have to bend the pins at a 90 degree angle (little pressure only), use the IC-inserter and "plug" the IC into the socket.Originally Posted by Torben
Yep, that looks like a lot more fun than the needle-nose-pliers-and-swearing method I usually use when the pins are really bent up.Torben
The tension will hold an IC even under high g-loads.
Hans
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Actually a good question.
I was suffering with the same problem.For one or two IC's the hand & the support of a flat surface is ok.
But think if you have 100 ICs how do you do?
That tool is really needed.
I once used a bench wise to do the trick
I never did it again because it 'felt' like being cruel to electronics
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Don't you have employees for that kind of job?But think if you have 100 ICs how do you do?That tool is really needed.
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We have a fancy block of aluminium at work with a raised centre section to suit the width of the 0.3" IC.
Close on each side of the raised section is a ball bearing which will press the pins inwards as the IC is pushed past along the raised section.
If you flip it over, the other side has a wider ridge to suit 0.6" spaced IC's with another pair of bearings.
It really works well, quick and easy to use, the beauty being it just sits on the desk, no fumbling about picking up a handtool for each IC.
Can't recall where we got it from, it was many years ago when we used to use a hell of a lot of EPROMs.
Ray
Frequently I would insert one row of the IC into the board, then push sideways on it till the other pins lined up. Sometimes the pins were too stiff and it was back to the needle nose and swearing.
Using the original part configuration meant they always stayed in the board.
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