well that board really is to program the pic via the pickit programmer that does not have a zif on it. I don't think a standard IC socket will take much putting in and out plus I'd end up damaging the pic so came up with the mudule idea, I'll just solder the pic to the board on other modules and plugit into the cicuit, thats for testing and experimenting, if I were to make a project into complete usable form I'd put the pic straight on the mainboard via a socket and implement ICSP