Date   : Tue, 07 Dec 1999 00:23:03 +0000
From   : "B.E.Newsam" <ben@...>
Subject: Re: Removing ROMs from Issue 7 board

In message <NABBKDNBEOKOCFKNJILIIEKKEAAA.mark.usher@...>, Mark Usher
<mark.usher@...> writes
>JGH introduced me to the best chip extractor ever, this is the covers for
>the slots on a PC casing for the ISA/PC cards.
>Turn it upside down and you have an L shape, almost perect for levering out
>those IC's. A little insualtion tape around the bottom of the L to protect
>the PCB from possible scratches and ta da...

The trick to removing chips is to extract both ends more or less at
once, otherwise you will end up with bent pins.
-- 
Ben