> > can anyone tell me how to remove a 18-pin socket from a pcb? i, kind
> > of, um, may have melted a hole in it messing with the crystal caps.
>
>   Pare back the distorted plastic so the chip fits again.  Where's the
> problem?  Also, what is "*may* have (melted a hole)"?


As in "Dad, I may have wrecked the car"?  :)