> If you don't have needle nose pliers handy, insert the bent pin into the
> barrel of a 0.5 mechanical pencil and straighten away -- works great to
> straighten out a bent DIP pin, but of course not in all situations.

If you are really desperate and with no better tools to hand, I have found
that the hole in the tip of a retracted ball-point pen works OK. This is
substantially larger than the pin OD but still produces acceptable results.
As in all such cases, YMMV of course :-)


        RM

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