On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 at 03:16:41, ZN wrote:
(ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
>If such a situation arises, the quick and easy solution is to carefully
>solder the chips into the sockets - chip by chip, so you can get at all the
>pins. In case of a chip failure, this will not make much of a difference -
>the socket failed in any case, so the only difference is wether there is a
>bad chip soldered into a bad socket, or it's only the bad socket - in
>either case the socket has to be desoldered, and thrown away, with or
>without the chip. As Tony well knows from superHermes, turned pins in
>professional sockets DO solder quite easily even from the wrong end ;-)
Indeed (8-)#
I was planning to use my sH soldering iron bit to solder the legs in the
sockets.
..... once I had made sure it isn't simply a bad chip (8-)#
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