Sockets for the ICs

A place to eternalise your Gigatron build photos. From box to BASIC.
Forum rules
Use this forum to show off your build photos. For build issues, please consult the directions in the sticky post on top instead.
Tor
Posts: 4
Joined: 09 Jan 2019, 12:29

Re: Sockets for the ICs

Post by Tor »

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.
Post Reply