Aries does make something like this. You need the socket
itself: http://www.arieselec.com/products/10015.pdf as
well as an adapter plate:
http://www.arieselec.com/products/10016.pdf.

I have a couple of those at work. They are expensive and
they are huge, but they work. I'd love something smaller
and cheapter that works.

--Bob

On Mon, Aug 23, 1999 at 12:08:18PM -0400, Thomas McGahee wrote:
> PICsters,
>
> I was thinking about this, and wondered if there might not
> be a slightly more expensive, but more flexible answer.
> Wouldn't it be nice to have a re-useable surface mount
> to DIP converter that was SOLDERLESS, so you could then
> eventually remove the IC and use it elsewhere. The
> re-useability of the converter would mean that you could
> get by with just a few of the devices during the
> design stage of a project.

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