On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 14:42:05 +1300, Russell McMahon wrote:

>> 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 :-)
>

If I know that I'm going to be handling an expensive chip a lot, I'll
just put it in a machined-pin socket. (I can sometimes be a bit of a
klutz and the end pins can get a lot of abuse if I drop the chip.)

I routinely do the same for emulator probes and my ICD.


Regards, Bob

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