Re: Sockets for the ICs
Posted: 09 Jan 2019, 13:28
I'm waiting for the kit to arrive, but I'm planning to socket everything (using machined sockets). As for bending IC pins, I never found that to be a problem - new ICs are always wide, so I just press the IC sideways on the tabletop, first one side then the other, and then all pins are aligned and it'll go smoothly into the socket. I insert one side first, press a little, then the other side (i.e. I bend the pins so that the IC is just a tiny bit wide for the socket). If I somehow bend the bins too much it's easy enough to bend them back by using the edge of the table.
Been doing it this way since the late seventies.
Been doing it this way since the late seventies.