Would a hot-air station work to soften the plastic first?

On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 6:18 AM, Stephen Adolph <[email protected]> wrote:
> great.  wish there was a better solution for the pins.  maybe those edge
> pins that clip on.  I've never been able to pull the pins out of the
> plastic. I use a pair of clippers to cut across the plastic and weaken it,
> and eventually get it off.  Real pain.
>
> On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 2:05 AM, Brian White <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I just built one of your model 200 ram boards Steven, and it worked.
>>
>> As we already talked about,
>> the pins were tedious to do but at least I found a reasonably
>> reproduceable procedure without any special jig. I had some generic cheap
>> round pins from ebay, and when you pull them out of the insulator, the
>> exposed soulder fits in the holes perfect. Good enough that they all line
>> up. It's just tedious to pull each pin individually out of the insulator
>> without breaking them, and it leaves a fairly large chunk of metal to nip
>> off after soldering, but it works.
>>
>> Aside from that it was a breeze. Popped right in and all 3 banks show up.
>>
>> https://photos.app.goo.gl/g1G4bo6FbjJSgcqU2
>>
>> Thanks a lot!
>>
>> --
>> bkw
>>
>

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